Terrorism in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has experienced terrorism in the past conducted by a number of different organizations.[4][5] In the past, both ISIL and other terrorist organizations had claimed to be active in the country however, the Bangladeshi government believes that they mainly operated through local affiliates, before being neutralised by security forces.

Quotes

• Terrorism in Bangladesh is a relatively new but internationally linked phenomenon, especially when compared to its presence in other South Asian states.
  • National Security under the Obama Administration - B. Rajaee · 2012

• While the bomb blasts and the suicide bombings point towards a supportive role being played by external extremist groups, terrorism in Bangladesh is essentially a home-grown war militants are waging against their own people.
  • South Asia: The Spectre of Terrorism P. R. Kumaraswamy, ‎Ian Copland · 2013

• The most important characteristic of contemporary terrorism in Bangladesh is the terrorists' ability to sustain and regenerate by adapting the security environment by using the loopholes in the criminal justice system.
  • International Case Studies of Terrorist Rehabilitation. Rohan Gunaratna, ‎Sabariah M. Hussin · 2018

• The arrival of a large al-Qaeda group in the capital Dhaka raises pressing concerns that Bangladesh may have become a dangerous new front in America s war on terror. Indeed, one Bangladeshi newspaper last month even quoted an unamed foreign embassy in Dhaka as saying Osama bin Laden's No. 2, Egjqjtian Ayman al-Zawahiri, had been hiding out in the country for months after arriving in Chittagong. Today, southern Bangladesh has become a haven for hundreds of jihadis on the lam. They find natural allies in Muslim guerrillas from India hiding out across the border.
  • Alex Perry quoted in Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 page 127

• On the ground, in the investigations that we have carried out, we did not get any evidence of ISIS links as yet. I do not think, any terrorist or groups would ever gain permanent or semi-permanent ground in Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, quoted on One India (February 13, 2016), "No evidence of ISIS' presence in Bangladesh: Alam"