Saturday, December 08, 2012

BANGLADESH: MUTINY

The main aim of the recent BDR mutiny in Bangladesh was to grab power and nothing else

He is credited with taking on numerous fundamentalist outfits close to Begum Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), whom Sheikh Hasina overthrew. "There are definite indications that even the army was split down the ranks,” Deepak Dastidar, a well known Bangladesh specialist told B&E.

It is well known that Ahmed was committed to rolling back the Talibanisation of Bangladesh, which had proceeded during the years when the hawkish Begum Zia was at the helm. Indeed it is an open secret that in all those years her government gave the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) a free hand. The result: Islamists felt completely undeterred to terrorise the nation’s Hindu minorities. This was coupled with the enforcement of a rigid Taliban culture on the Muslim community. No wonder that during Begum Zia''s second term in office (2001-2006), a large number of JI and JMB elements were able to penetrate the army’s ranks. Undoubtedly, all these events show that the BDR mutiny was actually a well orchestrated move to derail the liberals.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPMMalay Chaudhuri

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