MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the BBC, the Bangladesh police is going after various types of suspects, not just those suspected of terror. The law enforcement agencies are using lists of wanted criminals, but they insist that the main goal is to disrupt terrorist networks.
"Many of them are suspected for other regular crimes. Police will interrogate them and try to find who is responsible for what," Shahidur Rahman, Deputy Inspector General of Police told the BBC Bengali.
On May 15, a Buddhist monk was hacked to death in southeastern Bangladesh, in a series of similar attacks on religious leaders and rights activists. A week before that, a Sufi Muslim leader was hacked to death in northern Bangladesh.
In late April, a Hindu tailor was hacked in central Bangladesh. The Daesh jihadist group, banned in multiple countries including Russia, claimed responsibility for the attack. A leading gay rights activist and another man were hacked to death in the capital city of Dhaka the same week, with an al-Qaeda affiliate claiming responsibility for the attack.
