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Bangladesh Bans Radical Islamist Group Jamaat-e-Islami, Its Youth Wing For Violence During Student Protests
The Bangladesh government on Thursday banned radical Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami and its youth wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, for creating unrest and participating in violence during the recent student protests against government job quotas.
Students Against Discrimination staged nationwide rallies last month that ended in a police crackdown and the deaths of at least 206 people. The Sheikh Hasina-led government alleges that the radical Islamist group, which is also Bangladesh’s largest Islamist group, hijacked the protest and spearheaded looting, violence and damage of public property.
The group and its youth wing were banned under Section 18(1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act of Bangladesh after an executive order was issued by the government.
“These outfits cannot function as political parties after this order has been passed,” Bangladesh law minister Anisul Haque told Prothom Hello.
The group is also known for colluding with the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Liberation War and helped the Pakistan Army hunt down freedom fighters seeking liberation from Pakistan, murder and torture intellectuals and train people to fight against the muktijoddhas (freedom fighters under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) and the Indian Army that helped Bangladesh win the 1971 war.
The party formed the Razakar and Al-Badr brigades that committed war crimes and acts of genocide which included rape of Hindu and Muslim women and their murder, mass killings, murder and torture.
The outfit in recent years has been accused of religious persecution as well. In 2013, after the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced the outfit’s leader Delwar Hossain Sayidee to death, the group burnt over 50 temples across Bangladesh and attacked Hindus and other minority groups in Bangladesh.
It also has been accused of being linked to Al Qaeda inspired Islamic extremist group in Bangladesh Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) that carried out some brutal attacks and murders of atheists, freethinkers and LGBTQIA+ activists from 2013 to 2015.
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