Word: bangladeshis
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...Security Council issued a statement supporting the actions of U.N. troops who killed more than 50 militiamen in a gunfight in the northeastern Ituri region. U.N. officials said the peacekeepers were fired on first and acted in self-defense. The militia was thought to be responsible for slaying nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers a week earlier. More Brinkmanship NORTH KOREA The government announced that it no longer felt bound by a self-imposed 1999 moratorium on long-range missile testing, and blamed the "hostile policy" of the U.S. toward Pyongyang for compelling it to boost its "self-defensive nuclear arsenal." The move...
...until very recently, Bangladeshi officials flatly denied that the country was a hotbed of militancy and violence. "We have no official knowledge of the existence of J.M.J.B.," State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar told reporters on Jan. 26. "Certain so-called newspapers have been running reports on it, [but] we have no record that any such group has formed...
...Last week, however, the government dramatically changed its strategy. Police announced the arrest of scores of suspected militants in two days; they allegedly included several in possession of explosives and bomb-making equipment, as well as a professor of Arabic named Mohammed Asadullah Al Galib whom Bangladeshi authorities have accused of having ties to militants in the Middle East and Asia. Officials also banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (J.M.B.) and the suddenly acknowledged J.M.J.B., accusing these two organizations of "a series of murders, robberies, bomb attacks, threats and various kinds of terrorist acts," and of "trying to create social unrest...
...KILLED. SHAH AMS KIRIA, 73, Bangladeshi opposition figure and former Finance Minister, along with four others; in a grenade blast at a rally for the Awami League party; in Laskarpur, northeast Bangladesh. The party whose leader, Sheikh Hasina, narrowly escaped a similar bombing in the capital Dhaka last August, called a nationwide general strike over the weekend to protest the killings. Subsequent riots in Dhaka and other areas led to more than 100 arrests...
...many as 3 million impoverished children will die this year of malaria, although easy prevention (bed nets to ward off mosquitoes) and treatments (antimalarial drugs) exist to save those children. Tens of millions of Bangladeshi citizens are being poisoned daily by drinking well water that is laden with natural arsenic, yet the rich world has not seen fit to help resolve this long-recognized crisis. And the list goes on. The failure of the U.S. and other countries to respond to such utterly solvable crises results not only in massive unnecessary death but also in a vicious circle of poverty...