Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 07/08/2016 - 09:36
Paper No. 6144 Dated 08-Jul-2016
By Bhaskar Roy
The siege of the Holey Artisan Café by a group of young Jihadis on July 1 evening was something waiting to happen. Twenty guests dining in this up-market restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic area were killed by these terrorists. Most of them were foreigners. Two police officers also lost their lives. The terrorists were killed in a mixed forces commando raid later.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 03/05/2015 - 05:37
Paper No. 5886 Dated 05-Mar-2015
By Bhaskar Roy
The assassination of Avijit Roy on Dhaka university campus on February 26 is a message to the secular and free thinking society of Bangladesh that the forces of religious intolerant groups are rising at a pace that even the Jamaatul Mujahidin Bangladesh(JMB) could not attain during the BNP-JEI rule from 2001-2006.
