Bloody battles of South Asia

Joe Fleishman
South Asia a place where nearly one fifth of world population lives -is now heating up for a bloody battle ground of terrorism. At first we saw their activities in recent months only located near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Then terrorism hits Mumbai. Although India is a place of terrorist´s laboratory for a long time but the Mumbai attack has set a new dimension of terrorism in South Asia. Soon after the Mumbai attack we saw Sri-Lankan Cricketers have joined the list of terrorist´s target.

Within a very short piece of time, mutiny of Bangladesh Border Security Forces or BDR and attack on Police Academy in Pakistan were took place. Strangely both of attacks have unusual similarity. In both the cases outsiders infiltrated in the highly secured area disguising them-selves with BDR & Police dresses.

There are many other similarities but before going on to those matter let me ask one question, these official dresses are not a product you can get from a shop. If someone copied the dress still there are some other things attached with the dresses like name, rank, color, division etc. -all these are required to be identical. Here in our two cases –both were fully matched but how? In both the attack ultimate target were high ranking officers. Both the cases, they used similar type of automatic and semi automatic riffles, they used identical hand grenade. Both cases the target date were chosen when everyone gathered in a small area without any arms. All these unanswered questions are indicating that the planners of these attacks are same. Both the plans are seams to have been made in terrorists nurtured ground Pakistan.

Both Bangladesh and Pakistan have a political party in same name- JIB and JIP or Jamayate Islami of Bangladesh and Jamayate Islami of Pakistan. They are well attached with each other. Leaders of Jamayate Islami of Bangladesh often visit Pakistan to meet with Pakistani leaders. Also Jamayate Islami of Bangladesh have real bad reputation for their connection with Pakistani troops during the countries war of independence in 1971. At that time their roll was highly controversial. Many of their members were accused of killing, raping, looting and many other violence –although Bangladesh was failed to bring them under trial.

After winning the 29th December´s national election, ruling Awamileague have promised to bring war criminals into trial. But if Awamileague will do so, many Pakistani ex-military servicemen may face criminal charges from International War Crime Tribunal. So in early February Pakistan send a special delegate to Bangladesh Government to request not to trial the war criminals. But Bangladesh denied that request. At that time that Pakistani delegate met with the leaders of Jamayate Islami of Bangladesh and main opposition party BNP. Although he was a special delegate assigned to meet only with the government –it is unclear why he met with the leaders Jamayate Islami and BNP. Hence, main opposition BNP have some leaders who have close intimacy with Pakistan, S.K. Chowdhury is one of them. This man is a well known war criminal who managed to avoid any trial and became a very influential politician in opposition BNP´s politics. He is one of the prime suspects of 10 truck arm-smuggling case, which was the biggest in countries history. It is widely believed that these weapons are brought for Ulfa guerilla´s of India. So Mr. Chowdhury has long involvement with many terrorist organizations. Chowdhury was a candidate of OIC Secretary General. But he was defeated as his background was unfolded just before OIC election. At that time he blamed Awamileague for highlighting his background before the world.


It has been revealed that a leader of Jamayate Islami Abdur Razzak has entered BDR campus 3 times in 10 days time, just before the BDR mutiny. He entered in BDR campus on February 16, 19 and 22. In the logbook he mentioned some personal meeting with Mejr. Syed Muniruzzan –which Mejr. Munir denied. On February 19 and 22 he was accompanied by some other unidentified Jamayat leaders. It is unclear why Razzak went to high-court in advance for advance bail petition –which allowed him a remedy that he cannot be arrested before April 5th. It is believed that Razzak somehow came to know that his activities are under scrutiny so he was seeking for an alternative remedy. We learned that S.K.Chowdhury came to BDR five days before mutiny. His arrival was recorded on February 20th. He mentioned some important discussions before BDR week. He is a powerful man so, nobody challenged him. During the time of BDR mutiny all the entry records have been destroyed. But this particular logbook sends to record room on February 23rd and may be by mistake this book has remained untouched.

Soon after the investigators started revealing some facts of BDR munity, all of a sudden both opposition BNP & Jamayate Islami have changed their pervious position and started condemning government for not choosing military option.

I think investigators should focus on these points, why these Jamayat leaders have visited BDR 3 times in 7 days time, who are those people that Razzak & his fellow leaders were met, why S.K. Chowdhury visits 4 days before BDR Week without any proper necessity, who are the people that Chudhury was met, why BNP & Jamayate Islami have changed their stands, Razzak admits he has close tie with some BDR members –what roll he played.

Finally let´s get back to our main topic again –it appears that a full-fledged terrorist network is very much active in South Asia. It is important to know what roll does some south Indians are playing. During Mumbai attack terrorist from Pakistan arrived by boat –it is possible that someone closed to that area have sheltered them. It is likely that it was not their first time trip to India. Probably they have visited India before from Pakistan by boat and some people there in Southern India have given them shelter, helped them to locate their targets. If these all are not properly focused terrorism in South Asia is far from over.
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Joe Fleishman

Joe was born in 1968, in Philippine. His mother is from Philippine and father is an American. He grew up in Manila and starts his career as a junior reporter and news photographer for a local newspaper.

In 2001 he moved to Japan as a news reporter. He spends significant time in his career in India. Joe was injured in 2008 while a road side bomb hits him in a densely populated area of India. After a short brake to recover from his injury, Joe once again is on the road of responsibility. He is now working for 24News.

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