January 1

BDR seizes a large cache of weapons after an encounter with some terrorists at Lemuchhari in the Bandarban district of CHT.

BDR personnel arrest six terrorists belonging to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and seize illegal arms and ammunition from their possession at Chunarughat in the Sylhet district.

January 2

An Islamist fundamentalist alliance, Hifajate Khatme Nabuwat Andolon (HKNA or ‘the movement to conserve the right of the last prophet’), takes an oath to launch a holy war (jihad) against Ahmadiyyas if the Government does not declare them as ‘non-Muslims’ by January 9.

Bangladesh launches a crackdown on terrorists, irrespective of their nationality, in the border areas of Chittagong Hill Tracts and greater Sylhet district.

January 3

A vernacular newspaper Jugantar reports that at least 34 suspected terrorists belonging to the ULFA have been arrested from the Mohammadpur area in capital Dhaka during a raid.

Three extremists belonging to unnamed underground groups are killed in separate incidents at Santhia and Chatmohor in the Pabna district.

January 4

Ministry of Home denies reports regarding arrests of some ULFA terrorists in Dhaka.

January 5

Director General level border conference between the BDR and the BSF of India begins in New Delhi.

Prime Minister Khaleda Zia assures Indian Premier Atal Behari Vajpayee in Islamabad during the 12th SAARC Summit that Bangladesh would never allow terrorist groups to use its territory against any country.

January 6

PCJSS announces a 120-hour road-blockade programme in the CHT from January 19 to press home its four-point demands.

January 8

About 25 armed PCJSS cadres abduct at least 10 villagers allegedly for sheltering UPDF activists.

January 9

Home Ministry bans all publications of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh a day before the end of an ultimatum given by the anti-Ahmadiyya alliance Hifazate Khatme Nabuwat Andolon (HKNA), represented by Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) leaders to declare the sect as ‘non-Muslims’.

The annual conference of the BSF and its Bangladesh counterpart BDR ends in New Delhi without arriving at a consensus on the issue of number of terrorist camps in Bangladesh.

January 10

A PBCP (Janajuddha faction) leader, Shahadat Hossain Raju, says that the outfit has engaged a 10-member team to kill 19 leaders of the BNP, Awami League and Jatiya Party (Ershad) in the southwestern region of the country.

January 12

Two persons are killed and 37 others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at the shrine of Saint Shahjalal in Sylhet.

January 15

A correspondent of the Daily Sangbad, Manik Chandra Saha, is killed during a bomb explosion in Khulna.

January 16

Chairman of Islamic Oikya Jote, Fazlul Haq Amini, a partner of the ruling coalition, threatens that the country would turn into a province of India if the Government did not declare the Ahmadiyyas as ‘non-Muslim’.

January 17

PBCP (Janajuddha faction) claims responsibility for the death of Daily Sangbad journalist Manik Chandra Saha in a bomb attack on January 15 in Khulna.

January 19

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar urges Bangladesh to flush out terrorists backed by the Al Qaeda and Pakistan’s ISI from its territory, following the footsteps of Bhutan.

January 21

The task force on refugees in the CHT meets in Khagrachhari after about four years but fails to take up issues on the agenda as a representative of PCJSS and a refugee leader, Santosit Chakma, boycott the meeting.

January 22

PBCP (Janajuddha faction) threatens nine journalists in Satkhira.

January 23

Aamra Dhakabashi, a socio-cultural organisation, and the HKNA during a meeting at Muktangan in Dhaka issue threats against the Government if it fails to declare the Ahmadiyyas as ‘non-Muslims’.

January 29

A leader of the ruling BNP, Amir Azam Khan, and chairman of Amirpur union in Batiaghata upazila (sub-district) under Khulna Police Station is killed by extremists.

January 31

Extremists of the Janajuddha (Marxist and Leninist) faction of the outlawed PBCP kill a BNP leader and an Awami League leader in separate incidents in Khulna district.

January 31

PBCP (Janajuddha faction) kills a Bangladesh National Party (BNP) leader and an Awami League leader in separate incidents in Khulna district.

February 4

A media report says that defected cadres from the outlawed PBCP (M-L faction) have formed a new left-wing extremist organization named as Purba Banglar Maoist Communist Party (PBMCP) in Khulna.

February 9

Four suspected extremists are lynched in two separate incidents in the Khulna and Bagerhat districts.

The Rajshahi Metropolitan Police beefs up security at the office and residence of the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in the city after a letter claiming to be from the Al Qaeda threatened to blow up the office unless the diplomat paid Taka 50 million.

February 14

PBCP (Janajuddha faction) in a letter threatens to kill 17 people in Gaibandha including journalists, the deputy commissioner, police officials and NGO workers.

February 18

Police arrest six cadres, including a ‘regional commander’ of the PBCP (ML Janajuddha faction), Abdul Gaffar Tusher, from the southwestern region.

February 19

Four persons are injured when three bombs explode at a cinema hall in the Rupsha sub-district of Khulna district.

February 20

Seven persons sustain injuries in a bomb explosion during an exhibition at Damdama Bazaar in the Sirajganj district.

February 23

Assailants, allegedly belonging to the pro-government Parbatya Samo Adhikar Andolan, attack the vehicle of Gano Forum President Kamal Hossain in Kaukhali sub-district.

February 26

BNP activists attack former Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s motorcade at Charkawa ferry ghat in Barisal town.

Two former PBCP (Janajuddha faction) activists are killed by its armed cadres at Purondapur in Jiban Nagar sub-district.

February 27

Suspected Islamist extremists stab prominent writer Humayun Azad in front of the Bangla Academy in capital Dhaka.

February 29

Sheikh Hasina accuses Jamaat-e-Islami cadres of carrying out the February 27-attack on prominent writer Humayun Azad in Dhaka.

March 2

Tablig Jamaat activist Golam Mostafa is arrested in Dhaka for the attack on writer Humayun Azad.

March 4

A Jamaat-e-Islami leader of Bagerhat district, Maulana Gazi Abu Bakar Siddiqui, is killed in a bomb attack by unidentified assailants.

March 5

A local Imam (preacher) in Noakhali declares the Ahmadiyya community of Ambarnagar village as ‘non-Muslim’ and asks the locals to boycott them socially.

March 10

Dhaka rejects Indian proposal for a joint crackdown on terrorist outfits after the Indian Foreign Secretary Shashank requested Bangladesh to launch a Bhutan like crackdown on Indian terrorist outfits in that country.

March 11

Four extremists of an unidentified outlawed leftwing extremist group are lynched for killing a JCD leader in Sirajganj.

March 13

Suspected Islamists threaten Golam Mortoza, chief reporter of the weekly Saptahik 2000, with death for his investigative reports on religious fundamentalism and the criminal underworld.

March 16

Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Delwar Hossain Sayeedi is included by the United States in a list of persons who are suspected as ‘risky’. The US has listed Sayeedi in its ‘no-fly’ list and has sent a letter to that extent to the national airlines.

March 17

A media report says that the PBCP cadres have killed at least 26 people in different places of Chuadanga district during the last eight months from July 2003 to February 2004.

March 19

Islamists belonging to International Majlishe Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwat Bangladesh threaten to capture Ahmadiyya mosques in Barguna district and say that Ahmadiyyas have no right to live in Bangladesh after ‘stigmatising’ Islam by their activities.

March 20

The Government launches an anti-terrorism drive involving the BDR and police in Dhaka city after business leaders and international donors express concern about deteriorating law and order and increasing crimes in the country.

March 22

A media report indicates that top ULFA leaders have held a meeting in Dhaka on March 4 at the house of a “prominent personality” in Gulshan-II area with the aim to re-organise themselves after being dislodged from their camps in Bhutan in December 2003.

March 23

Writer Humayun Azad blames Islamist fundamentalists for the February 27, 2004-attack on him in Dhaka.

March 24

PBCP (Janajuddha faction) kills five persons belonging to a rival extremist group in two villages of Chuadanga district.

March 27

A mob kills two alleged operatives of an unidentified extremist outfit at Chitalmari in the Bagerhat district.

March 31

Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan rules out the possibility of handing over ULFA leader Anup Chetia, currently in jail, to the Indian authorities.

April 2

In the largest ever arms and ammunition seizure reported in Bangladesh, troops recover 10 truckloads of submachine-guns, AK-47 assault rifles, other firearms and bullets at the Karnaphuli coast in Chittagong.

April 6

Investigations into the Chittagong arms haul indicate that some ruling alliance leaders were in charge of handling the consignment after its delivery at high sea from a cargo ship bound for Chittagong port.

April 10

Jamaat-e-Islami denies the allegation of Sheikh Hasina Wajed of running “11 secret arms training camps” across the country.

April 11

Chittagong Mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury says that training camps of terrorists active in India’s Northeast exists in Bangladesh.

April 12

PBCP cadres kill three civilians in Chuadanga.

April 16

1,790 sophisticated firearms from the seizure in Chittagong on April 2 are given to the Rapid Action Battalion, which formally started functioning in Chittagong from April 14.

April 17

Speaking at a rally in Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina alleges that terrorists and armed cadres of the Jamaat-e-Islami are running the state affairs and controlling the country.

April 23

The left-wing 11-party alliance alleges that the Jamaat-e-Islami and ICS is developing an ‘Islamic militant network’ across the country by taking advantage of being a partner in the alliance Government.

April 25

A media report says that more than 1,200 activists of the outlawed PBCP in the Raninagar and Atrai areas of Naogaon district ‘surrendered’ along with an unspecified quantity of arms to Jagrato Muslim Janata Bangladesh, an vigilante Islamist group.

April 29

Bangladesh rejects India’s offer of joint patrolling of the 4,000 kilometer-long-land border during the biennial conference of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in Dhaka.

May 2

Chiefs of the BSF and BDR conclude their five-day talks at Dhaka without arriving at an agreement on contentious issues.

May 3

Officials of the BSF propose a joint paramilitary operation with Bangladesh to flush out terrorists from each other’s territory.

May 5

The police arrest five persons in connection with the April 2-ammunition haul case in Chittagong. The five are suspected to be drivers of the trucks used for ferrying the smuggled arms and ammunition.

May 7

Cadres of an unidentified left-wing extremist group kill two activists of the vigilante Islamist group, Jagrota Muslim Janata Bangladesh, at Naogaon village.

May 10

Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, president of Bangladesh Forum for Indigenous People, is stopped from leaving for the USA as the Government disallows his exit from the country.

May 11

Suspected cadres of the outlawed left-wing extremist PBCP kill four members of a rival extremist group and injure another at Ataikula.

May 12

During fresh clashes between outlaws belonging to Purbo Banglar Communist Party (ML Lal Pataka) and another extremist group, locally known as Bahini, in the Pabna district, four persons are killed and eight others sustain injuries. All the dead were affiliated to the PBCP.

May 13

Replying to a question of Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Shahidul Islam in the Parliament, Foreign Minister Morshed Khan refutes allegations of Indian terrorists’ camps in Bangladesh as being fictitious.

May 17

Cadres of the outlawed left-wing extremist PBCP kill two operatives of the vigilante Islamist group Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, injure six others and also launch arson attacks on three houses in Naogaon.

May 20

Operatives of the Islamist vigilante group, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, led by ‘commander’ Bangla Bhai, kill three suspected PBCP cadres near Bamongram village in the Bogra district.

May 21

Two persons are killed and at least 100 others, including the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Chowdhury, sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at the Hazrat Shahjalal shrine in Sylhet town.

May 22

A large number of JMJB activists stage a ‘demonstration’ in the Rajshahi district and issue death threats to journalists.

May 27

Japanese police arrest three Bangladeshis for suspected Al Qaeda links.

Security forces kill Fakhrul Islam Babul, secretary of the PBCP Khulna divisional unit, at Sonakhali village in the Bagerhat district.

May 30

PBCP cadres kill eight Gono Mukti Fouz cadres in Kushtia district.

June 1

Police neutralises a HuJI training camp located in the interior hilly area of Pori-Kup Mulatoli in Chittagong district and recovers 24 inactive AK-47 rifles, sharp weapons and instruments and uniforms.

The Naogaon police arrest three JMJB operatives and also detain two of its leaders.

June 2

Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina alleges that Jamaat-e-Islami has links to 12 to 16 Islamist extremist outfits operating in Bangladesh.

Two PBCP (Janajuddha faction) cadres are killed during mob violence in the Fakirhat area of Bagerhat district.

A media report says that the Saudi charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, continues to operate in Bangladesh despite its dissolution in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of funding the Al Qaeda.

June 3

Japanese police arrest a Bangladeshi man suspecting that he may have links to a possible Al Qaeda cell in Japan.

June 4

Khokan Mia, second in command of the outlawed left-wing extremist Sarbahara Party (Zia Group), is shot dead by cadres of the rival Kamrul Group at Sirikail Bazaar in the Barisal district.

June 5

Bangla Bhai names three ministers and a BNP lawmaker for assigning him the job to launch an anti-outlaw operation in the northwest region.

June 6

PBCP (ML-Janajuddha) claims responsibility for the killing of Rajshahi University Deputy Registrar, Golam Mustafa.

June 9

Interrogation by Bagmara police of four arrested ‘regional commanders’ of the PBCP (Lal Potaka) reveals that the organisation has links with extremist groups in six countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.

June 10

A PBCP-ML activist is killed and five police officers are wounded during an encounter between police and armed PBCP cadres in Khulna.

June 12

Two terrorists, including Sachindra Debbarma, who is believed to be number three in the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) hierarchy, is killed during an attack at Satcherri in the Habiganj district.

June 14

Criminal Investigation Department of the Bangladesh police charge-sheets 39 people for their involvement in the Chittagong arms haul case.

June 15

Japanese prosecutors indict two Bangladeshis with suspected links to Al Qaeda for alleged violation of immigration laws.

June 17

Maulana Mohammed Habibur Rahman, Principal of Jamea Madania Islamia Madrassa (seminary) at Kazirpar, denies his involvement in the attack on British High Commissioner.

June 20

An unidentified Islamist group threatens to blow up the Hazrat Syed Shah Mustafa shrine in the Moulvibazaar area of Sylhet district.

June 22

Three US embassy officials visit Bagmara sub-district in Rajshahi to gather information about the activities of JMJB.

Industries Minister and Ameer (chief) of ruling coalition partner Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami, expresses doubts over the existence of Bangla Bhai and his force in the north-western districts.

June 23

PBCP (Janajuddha faction) kills five cadres of the rival PBCP (Marxist-Leninist) faction at Naripota village in the Chuadanga district.

June 25

About 400 armed operatives of the Shanti Raksha Committee (Peace-Keeping Committee), another name for the JMJB, injure three people and ransack many houses in the Aamdighi area of Bogra. PBCP (Janajuddha) cadres kill one civilian at village Luximpur in the Chuadanga district.

June 26

JMJB extremists abduct two women and a child from Bagmara in the Rajshahi district.

June 27

A PBCP (Janajuddha faction) cadre kills the editor of Dainik Janmabhumi, Humayun Kabir Balu, and injures his elder son during a bomb attack in Khulna city.

June 28

The US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Harry K Thomas, says that religious and political radicals, including JMJB leader Bangla Bhai, should be arrested immediately.

Extremists belonging to the Nastik Murtad Resistance Committee and Muslim Millat Shariah Council issue ‘death sentences’ to three professors of Dhaka University accusing them of running an ‘anti-Islamic’ propaganda in the country.

June 29

The outlawed New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP) threatens to blow up the office of a local daily Dainik Prabarton in Khulna city.

June 30

Three left-wing extremist cadres are killed in separate encounters with security forces’ at Mirpur in Kushtia district and Alamdanga in the Chuadanga district.

July 1

PBCP (Janajuddha) threatens to kill 13 journalists based in Satkhira.

July 2

Islamist organisations including Islamic Constitution Movement hold a rally to protest against Bangladesh’s first women’s wrestling competition, scheduled for July 4.

July 3

The Government suspends the scheduled first-ever women’s wrestling competition in Bangladesh, reportedly in the wake of opposition from an Islamist group.

July 5

Six suspected terrorists, arrested from a mosque in Barguna, admit at the joint interrogation cell in Dhaka that they had gathered to take part in a three-day training to obtain knowledge on ‘Islamic jihad’ and firearms use.

July 6

Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed alleges that the Government has assigned a terrorist to issue a death threat to her and it would be responsible for any eventuality of the sort.

July 8

The Bangladesh Bank cautions all banks and financial institutions against six accounts for their suspected links with the Al Qaeda and Taliban and instructs them to freeze the account/s if they have any of them.

July 11

Ten prominent politicians, 22 journalists and a number of intellectuals receive death threats from an Islamist militant outfit, Mujahideen al-Islam.

July 13

Sayed Kawsar Hussain Siddiki, ‘commander’ of the country’s only banned Islamist outfit Shahadat-e-Al Hiqma, is released on bail in a sedition case.

July 16

Armed cadres of the Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party (PBSP) kill a local leader of the Workers Party of Bangladesh in Uzirpur sub-district, Barisal, and wound his wife and five others.

July 20

India seeks from Bangladesh details of the April 2-arms seizure in Chittagong during a bilateral meeting between External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart M Morshed Khan on the margins of the SAARC Ministerial meeting in Islamabad. The CID relieves its Chittagong zone Assistant Superintendent of Police, AKM Kabiruddin, investigation officer of three cases, including the April 2-arms haul.

July 22

Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami and Industries Minister, Motiur Rahman Nizami, claims that Islamist vigilante leader Bangla Bhai does not exist in reality and was a media creation.

July 25

Security forces arrest five cadres of the newly emerged left-wing extremist Chhinnomul Communist Party after an encounter at Mozamnagar in Khulna district.

July 27

Foreign Minister Morshed Khan disagrees with Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s reported concern regarding presence of Indian terrorist groups during his meeting with Bangladesh opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi.

July 28

The PBCP (Janajuddha faction) in a bomb attack kills two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders and injures another at Hardi bazaar in the Chuadanga district.

August 5

A boy is killed and seven people sustain injuries during two bomb blasts at two cinema halls in the Sylhet city. The police defuse another bomb planted at a third theatre.

August 6

Police arrest four persons for their alleged involvement in the Sylhet bomb blasts.

August 7

An Awami League leader is killed and 30 people sustain injuries during a car bomb blast in Sylhet district.

August 8

Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina accuses the Government of being involved in Sylhet bomb blast that was intended to kill the city Mayor who is also an Awami League leader.

August 10

Parimal Sikder, alleged leader of the outlawed Sarbahara gang ‘Parimal Bahini’, dies during an encounter with the police at Kuturikati village in the Barisal district.

August 11

23 persons of Kaliganj sub-district in Satkhira are asked to pay Taka ten hundred thousand as toll or ‘face death’ through a postal mail with name of ‘Bangla Bhai’ affixed to the letter.

August 13

Khulna police thwarts attempts of activists of the International Khatme Nabuwat Movement Bangladesh (IKNMB) to destroy the Nirala Ahmadiyya mosque complex.

August 14

A meeting chaired by State Minister for Home Affairs, Lutfuzzaman Babar, in Khulna decides to launch a new drive against terrorists in the five districts of Khulna division.

August 17

Opposition parties led by the Awami League resolve to initiate a unified movement against Islamist militants whom they hold responsible for the recent bomb attacks in Bangladesh.

August 18

Two Islamist organisations stage a rally in front of the Chittagong office of Prothom Alo in protest against what they said was the newspaper’s defamatory reports against a seminary.

August 19

Thousands of teachers and students of Kowmi Madrassas (unregistered seminaries) protest against the Prothom Alo at a rally in Dhaka.

August 21

A series of grenade attacks on Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina’s rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka leaves at least 19 people killed and 200 others injured.

August 23

The Government forms a one-member judicial inquiry commission to probe the August 21-grenade attack in Dhaka in which at least 19 people were killed.

August 24

An Islamist outfit called Hikmat-ul-Jihad claims responsibility for the August 21-grenade attack in Dhaka in which at least 19 persons died.

August 26

Two operatives of the PBCP (Janajuddha faction) are lynched by a mob at Rajghat in the Fakirhat sub-district.

August 27

Bangladesh formally seeks help from Interpol for investigations into the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital on August 21.

August 30

A court in Kushtia sentences 10 underground operatives to death and another 12 to life imprisonment for murdering five Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leaders, including Kazi Aref Ahmed, six years ago.

Two Interpol experts examine the evidence the intelligence agencies gathered from the scene of the August 21-grenade attack in Dhaka.

August 31

The United Nations includes three international organisations – Al-Haramain, the Benevolence International Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation – operating in Bangladesh for suspected links with the Al Qaeda or Taliban.

September 1 A US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team arrives in the capital Dhaka to investigate the August 21-grenade attack on the Leader of Opposition Sheikh Hasina. September 5 Two persons, including an 11-year-old boy, are killed and seven others sustain injuries in a bomb blast at a house in Sylhet.

September 7

PBCP (Janajuddha faction) cadres kill three people, including a woman, in two incidents in the Chuadanga district.

The World Bank’s country director in Bangladesh, Christine Wallich, leaves after receiving a death threat.

September 13

The BSF Director General, Ajai Raj Sharma, says in Jammu that there were firm reports that the ISI had set up new training centres for terrorists in Bangladesh.

Tenure of Judicial Commission investigating the August 21-grenade attack is extended by another three weeks.

September 16

During the opening day of the fifth Home Secretary-level biennial talks in Dhaka, the Indian Home Secretary, Dhirendra Singh, presents a detailed list of some 195 camps of terrorists in Bangladesh.

Sheikh Hasina receives another death threat from an anonymous source through a postal mail.

September 20

The US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, says that it was the responsibility of the Bangladesh Government to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of the August 21-grenade attacks.

September 21

Rivals allegedly kill the ‘chief’ of the outlawed New Biplabi Communist Party, Manaranjan Gosai alias Mrinal, in the Nadia district of the Indian State of West Bengal.

Four police personnel are wounded when unidentified assailants lob at least seven bombs targeting their vehicle in the Khajura bus stand area, Jessore.

September 23

Bangladesh launches Cheetah, another anti-criminal elite force in plainclothes, the fourth in a row, in a bid to contain widespread crime.

September 24

Mahmud Hasan Monju, a leader of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction is killed in a clash with the police at Birampur village in the Jessore district.

September 27

A six-day Director General-level conference between the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Border Security Force (BSF) begins in New Delhi.

October 4

Cadres of the PBCP-ML shot dead two of their rivals in the Alamdanga and Sadar areas of Chuadanga district

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel seize an AK-47 rifle, a 9mm revolver, two grenades and large quantity of ammunitions from a slum at Mohakhali in the capital city of Dhaka.

Seven persons, including a local Awami League (AL) leader injured in an attack allegedly carried out by cadres of the JMJB at Barabihanali village in Rajshahi district.

October 5

Islamists in Bangladesh demand the cancellation of the first women’s football tournament being held at Kamalapur in the capital Dhaka since October 4.

October 10

Two persons killed by an unnamed outlawed party at Nabinnagar village in the Chuadanga district.

A PBCP (Janajuddha) cadre killed by cadres of BCP at Shantunagar village in the Chuadanga district.

October 11

The Bangladesh Rifles arrests 18 Indians from the Satchhari border area in Habibganj’s Chunarughat sub-district with two guns, six bullets, three daggers and some military uniforms.

Two senior leaders of the PBCP, Abul Hasem alias Kajal and Obaidul Haq alias Tiger, were killed in a shootout with the police in the Chuadanga district.

October 12

Three of the 18 Indian nationals arrested from Habiganj on October 11 for their suspected links with the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) remanded to police custody and the rest sent to jail.

October 16

A former cadre of the PBCP-Janajuddha, Kawser alias Kasr killed by police personnel at Malihad Canalpara in Mirpur sub-district in Kushtia district.

October 18

Three left wing extremists of the Jasad Gono Bahini (JGB) killed in an encounter with police personnel in Sadar sub-district of Kushtia district

October 20

The British detective agency Scotland Yard suspects the involvement of Islamist extremist groups in the grenade attack on the British High Commissioner, Anwar Choudhury, at Hazrat Shahjalal Shrine in Sylhet.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrests seven associates of Bangla Bhai, ‘operations commander’ of the JMJB, with arms and explosives from Jagadishpur Bariahat village in Naldanga of Natore district.

October 21

Cadres of the BCP kill three members of the Jasad Gono Bahini (JGB) at a village in Daulatpur sub-district of Kushtia district.

October 22

A woman cadre of the PBCP-Hamidul group killed by cadres of the Janajuddha faction at Ambahar village in Meherpur Sadar sub-district of Kushtia district.

A PBCP-Janajuddha cadre, Shahdat Hossain, killed in an encounter with security forces in the compound of the Prem Kanon area of Khulna city.

October 24

PBCP-Janajuddho cadres kill two of their own colleagues in Kushtia district for their alleged nexus with the police and ‘class enemies’.

October 26

Local villagers lynched two cadres of the PBCP-Janajuddho at Kurhia village in the Batiaghata upazila (subdistrict) of Khulna district

October 29

Abul Kalam Azad alias Tushar, a senior leader of the PBCP-Janajuddha lynched by a mob in the Khulna city.

Leader of the outlawed New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP) in Khulna-Jessore belt, Bellal Fakir, is killed in the Indian state of West Bengal.

October 31

A ‘regional leader’ of the PBCP, Rifat alias Kafil alias Kajal, killed in a ‘crossfire’ a day after he was arrested at Khadimpur in Chuadanga district.

A civilian was killed by cadres of the Biplobi Communist Party (BCP) at Raipur village in Gangni subdistrict of Meherpur district.

November 1

Two cadres of the Huq faction of BCP were killed in a clash with the police at Madhabpur in Jhenidah district.

A PBCP cadre killed in an encounter at Kazipur under Daulatpur sub-district in Kushtia district.

November 2

Two PBCP cadres killed in a factional clash between the Marxist Leninist (ML) and Janajuddho factions in Alamdanga sub-district in Chuadanga district.

BCP extremists killed a union parishad (local administrative body) member at Kabilnagar village under Alamdanga sub-district of Chuadanga district.

November 3

A leader of Purba Bangla Maobadi Communist Party, Mahfuzur Rahman Mafiz alias Nasim, is killed during a shootout in the Nandan sluice gate locality in Khulna district.

November 4

A PBCP- Janajuddha cadre is lynched by a mob in Khulna.

November 5

A BCP-ML cadre, arrested from Chorkol village in the Jhenidah district, is shot dead after he attempts to escape.

The Islamist outfit, Harkatul Jihad, threatens to assassinate Awami League chief, Sheikh Hasina, and two local leaders of its Kotalipara unit. Two separate letters containing the death threat are delivered at the Kotalipara office of the party.

November 6

Seven cadres of the banned Shahdat-e-Al-Hikma, including its chief Syed Kawsar Hossain, are arrested from the Rajshahi city.

November 8

A BCP-ML cadre is killed and a police officer sustains injuries in an encounter with the police at Parlat village in the Jhenidah district.

JMJB cadres distribute extortion notes in several villages such as Naldanga of Natore district, Raninagar of Naogaon district and Bagmara of Rajshahi district in the northwestern region of the country.

Five activists of Hill Research and Protection Forum (HRPF) are abducted by the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) cadres from Kutukchhari village in Rangamati district.

November 12

Railway police recovers 24 pieces of Gelatin ‘high speed explosive bars’ and 124 ‘electric detonators’ from a compartment of a local train at Bonarpara station in the Gaibandha district. Three persons, including a ‘regional commander’ of the Jamaat-ul-Mujaheedin, an Islamic extremist group are arrested in this connection.

November 14

Ziaul Haq Zia, a leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), is killed by the JMJB cadres at Raninagar village in Naogaon district.

November 18

Over hundred Rohingya refugees and police personnel are wounded during a clash at Kutupalong camp in the Cox’s Bazaar district.

Seven PBCP cadres arrested at Alamdanga in the Chuadanga district.

November 19

Three dead bodies of the Rohingya refugees are recovered from a forest area near the Kutupalong camp in the Cox’s Bazaar district.

November 23

BDR personnel recover seven AK-47 rifles, two M-16 rifles, and one rocket launcher from a forest area of Naikkhongchhari in Bandarban district. The cache also included one point 22 bore rifle, two 12-bore shotguns, two assault rifles and 1,671 bullets.

BNP leader, Shafiqul Islam Shafi, is killed and seven others were wounded in a bomb explosion at his office in Chuadanga.

November 24

BDR personnel recover illegal arms and ammunition including two 60mm and two 2-inch mortars, three British-made LMGs and its 49 magazines, 32 SLR magazines, 11 magazines of AK-47 rifle, and 2,000 bullets of British-made LMG from Jarullachhari area under Naikkhongchhari sub-district in Bandarban district.

Mosharraf Hossain alias Mosha, a regional PBCP- Janajuddha leader, is killed in an encounter with police personnel in Chuadanga district.

PBCP-Janajuddha, in a statement, claims responsibility for the explosion at the BNP office in Chuadanga on November 23.

November 25

Two PBCP cadres are killed during cross-fire at Alamdanga in the Chuadanga district.

Three BCP cadres are killed following a raid on a house at Parlaksmipur village in the Chuadanga district where an estimated 20 BCP cadres were holding a meeting.

November 27

Suspected PBCP cadres kill Ali Akbar, a district level leader of the Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal (BSD), at Bisnupur village in Rajshahi district.

Gazi Rokanuddin, a PBCP-Janajuddha cadre, is killed during an encounter with the police in Jessore district.

November 28

Five PBCP-ML cadres, including a ‘regional commander’ and a ‘deputy regional commander’ are arrested from Pirpur village in Pabna district.

November 29

PBCP cadre Mannan is killed during crossfire at Gabindahuda in the Chuadanga district.

November 30

BDR personnel recover a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including eight AK-47 rifles and 48 magazines, eight LMG and six magazines, and 4000 bullets from the Jaruliachhari hills area in Bandarban district.

A BCP leader is killed in an encounter between police and BCP cadres in sadar sub-district in Kushtia district.

December 1

A PBCP-Janajuddha cadre is killed by cadres belonging to a rival faction in the Govindapur canal area of Chuadanga district.

Two PBCP-Janajuddha cadres are killed by an angry mob while extorting money in separate incidents in Nehalpur village and Daulatpur kitchen market area in Khulna district.

Mirajul Hossain alias Kalam, a PBCP-ML leader, is killed during crossfire in the Chuadanga district.

December 2

BDR personnel arrest five cadres of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) at Khanshia village near Gazipur Reserve Forest in Kulaura sub-district of Moulvibazar district. Arms, ammunition and communication devices including one revolver, one pistol, two hand grenades, seven magazines, two radio-link sets, one walkie-talkie and one type machine were recovered from their possession.

December 6

Police personnel neutralise an illegal arms factory and arrest eight people at Chhagalnaiya in the Feni district.

December 12

Moazzem Hossain Ripon, a regional leader of the PBCP, is killed during crossfire in Banaripara, Barisal district.

PBCP-Janajuddha ‘regional commander’, Rezaul Tarafdar, is killed during crossfire at Failabazar in the Bagerhat district.

December 13

A PBCP- Janajuddha cadre, Abu Bakkar, is killed and two police personnel sustain injuries during a shootout at Alokdia village in the Jhenidah district.

December 15

BDR personnel recover a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including seven 9mm sub-machine carbines with 37 magazines, eight 9mm Stenguns with 19 magazines, ten 303 rifles, two locally made guns, four 303 rifle barrels, 7199 bullets of AK-47 rifle, 2,700 bullets of 7.62mm rifle and 2,400 bullets of 9mm pistol, from Chikonchhari in Bandarban district.

December 18

Two cadres of the Janajuddha faction of the PBCP are killed during a cross-fire between PBCP cadres and the police in Jessore district. On the same day, a cadre of the Gono Mukti Fouz was killed in an encounter at Joynabad village in Kushtia district. Separately, a PBCP-Marxist Leninist (PBCP-ML) leader was killed during an encounter with the security forces at Sonakhali village in Meherpur district.

December 22

A cadre of the Janajuddha faction of the PBCP is killed during an encounter with the security forces at Jabusa village in Khulna.

December 24

A ‘regional leader’ of the PBCP-Janajuddha, Sirajul Islam Siraj, is killed in an encounter with security forces in Pagla Kanai area of Jhenidah district.

December 29

Former Prime Minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, receives a death threat on e-mail sent by a man who identified himself as Ershad H. Azad from the capital Dhaka.

December 31

Two cadres of the PBCP, identified as Abdul Aziz and Asgar Ali, are killed during an encounter with the RAB personnel at Borobaria village in the Rajshahi district.

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