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*** 12-Jun-16 World View -- Bangladesh government arrests 3,192 people to stop terrorist killings

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Bangladesh government arrests 3,192 people to stop terrorist killings
  • History of Bangladesh's 'BNP-Jamaat clique' goes back to massive 1971 ethnic war

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**** Bangladesh government arrests 3,192 people to stop terrorist killings
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[Image: g160611b.jpg]
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses a press conference on Tuesday

Bangladesh's government has launched an anti-terror campaign, and
begun by arresting 3,192 persons, including 37 militants belonging to
outlawed radical jihadist groups.

Most of the militants arrested were members of the outlawed
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the outfit believed to have
carried out a series of attacks on Hindus, Christians, bloggers,
activists, professors and people from different other professions,
leaving them hacked to death in broad daylight. The other militant
groups swept up by the mass attacks are Jagrata Muslim Janata
Bangladesh (JMJB) and the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said that the police would stamp out this
violence:

[indent]<QUOTE>"Where will they hide in Bangladesh. No one will get
away. Bangladesh is a small country. It's not a tough task to find
them. They will be brought to justice.

Each and every killer will be brought to book as we did after the
2015 mayhem (and) all their sources, financiers and patrons would
be unearthed and brought to justice as well."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

When she referred to "all their sources, financiers and patrons, she
was referring to the "BNP-Jamaat clique," an alliance of opposition
parties, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its ally
Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat), that she has repeatedly accused of being
behind the violent attacks. In particular, she has repeatedly accused
the BNP-Jamaat clique of supporting Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
(JMB), the jihadist terror group responsible for the killings.

In a speech in May, she said, "BNP-Jamaat clique is now selectively
killing imams of mosques, priests of temples, fathers of churches and
teachers of universities alongside common people to create instability
in the country."

BNP secretary general Fakhrul Islam Alamgir accused the government of
using the massive crackdown to suppress political dissent. He
rejected the allegation that BNP and Jamaat were behind the attacks
and accused the government of arresting "hundreds of opposition
activists in the name of crackdown against Islamist militants."
BDNews (Dhaka) and India Times and Daily Star (Dhaka) and Dhaka Tribune (29-May)

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**** History of Bangladesh's 'BNP-Jamaat clique' goes back to massive 1971 ethnic war
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Although the extremely bloody 1947 war between Hindus and Muslims that
followed Partition, the partitioning of the Indian subcontinent into
India and Pakistan, was a generational crisis war for western India
and what is now Pakistan, it was a far less brutal non-crisis war for
eastern India (Bihar and West Bengal provinces) and what is now
Bangladesh (East Bengal). Because of its enormous size, east and west
India are on different generational timelines.

For east India and the current Bangladesh, the extremely bloody
generational crisis war occurred as an ethnic civil war in 1971
between Biharis and Bengalis. At that time, Pakistan was split into
West Pakistan and East Pakistan (East Bengal), and the outcome of the
1971 war was that East Pakistan became Bangladesh.

Both the Bengalis and the Biharis are mostly Muslim, although the
Biharis also include a small population of Hindus. The Bengalis are
the indigenous majority ethnic group of Bangladesh, and speak the
Bengali language. The Biharis are mostly Urdu-speaking people who
crossed the border from India and settled in East Pakistan during the
1947 Partition war.

Although the Bihari population was much smaller than the population of
indigenous Bengalis, the Biharis became a "market-dominant minority,"
allied with the West Pakistan government, in control of the major
business and government organizations, while the indigenous Bengalis
were most laborers.

The 1971 war between the Biharis, supported by Pakistan's army, and
the Bengalis was extremely bloody and genocidal on all sides.

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (Jamaat) was formed in 1941, and in 1971 it
was on the side of the Biharis and Pakistan's army in opposing the
anti-government uprising by the Bengalis. In the 1980s, it allied
with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), forming what the prime
minister is calling the "BNP-Jamaat clique."

Today, there are hundreds of thousands of Biharis living in refugee
camps in filthy conditions, with the largest camp just north of Dhaka,
Bangladesh's capital city. These are certainly a large part of the
motivation for Bihari jihadist groups to continue terrorist attacks.
Today they're often referred to as "the stranded Pakistanis," because
in 1971 Pakistan promised to transport them back to Pakistan, but
later reneged on that promise.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is the leader of the Bangladesh Awami
League, which is a Bengali political party originally formed in 1949.
The Awami League led the anti-Pakistan rebellion in the bloody 1971
civil war between Biharis and Bengalis.

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is a violent jihadist terror
group formed in 1998, reaching a peak of violence in August 2005 when
it detonated 500 bombs at 300 locations throughout Bangladesh.

So when prime minister Hasina accuses the "BNP-Jamaat clique" of
supporting JMB, what she's really doing is accusing the Biharis of
attacking the Bengalis in revenge for losing the 1971 war.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, this is not
surprising at all.

As I've written many times, most recently with respect to Kenya ( "7-Jun-16 World View -- Increasing violence in Kenya revives fears of tribal war"
) but previously
in articles about Rwanda, Lebanon, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and other
countries, countries that experience an internal ethnic civil war
follow the same pattern.

Among generational crisis wars, an external war is fundamentally
different than an internal civil war between two ethnic groups. If
two ethnic groups have lived together in peace for decades, have
intermarried and worked together, and if then there's a civil war
where one of these ethnic groups tortures, massacres and slaughters
their next-door neighbors in the other ethnic group, then the outcome
will be fundamentally different than if the same torture and slaughter
had been rendered by an external group. In either case, the country
will spend the Recovery Era immediately following the war setting up
rules and institutions designed to prevent any such war from occurring
again. But in one case, the country will be unified in the decades to
follow, while in the other case, the country will be increasingly torn
along the same ethnic fault line.

That's what's going on today in Bangladesh. Starting in the 2000s,
which was a generational Awakening era for Bangladesh, the
Bihari-based Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) began conducting
terrorist activities targeting the Bengali-based Awami League, and
Bengalis in general. The Bengali-led government is responding by
cracking down on the Biharis. This pattern of terrorist violence met
with violent government crackdown continues in cycles, with each cycle
worse than the previous one. This is a pattern that occurs in all
countries that go through an ethnic generational crisis civil war, and
it always ends up in new crisis civil war several decades later.
Meri News (India) and South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP - India) and Global Security (Washington)


KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, Bengalis, Beharis,
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, JMJB,
Ansarullah Bangla Team, ABT, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, BNP,
Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamaat, BNP-Jamaat clique, Fakhrul Islam Alamgir,
India, Partition, West Pakistan, East Pakistan, East Bengal, West Bengal,
Bangladesh Awami League

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