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...sporadic diplomatic efforts - the most recent one last September - the two countries have never been able to agree on exchanging the territory or even just accepting the de facto border as it is. "For Bangladesh, every inch is important," particularly as it loses ground to rising sea levels, says Sreeradha Datta, a political scientist at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. Bangladeshis in the area understandably bristle at the idea of being fenced in. "There are 17 companies of BSF here," says Mohammed Nazrul Islam, 37, a Bangladeshi who lives in one of the enclaves...
...threatened to tear down the Shahid Minar, a series of connected marble pillars that is Bangladesh's equivalent of the Statue of Liberty and the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. Jamaat contested in 39 parliamentary seats but won only 2, down from 17 in the last polls. "It is amazing," says Sreeradha Datta, a research fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis in New Delhi and longtime observer of Bangladesh. "Bangladeshis really voted the secular fabric back into place...
Some defense analysts say these attacks, which are similar in scope and sophistication to recent attacks in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Jaipur, could be the work of a jihadi group. Sreeradha Datta, of the Institute of Defense and Security Analysis in New Delhi, sees the influence of Harkat ul Jihad ul Islami, which is based in Bangladesh and has ties to ULFA, or some other jihadi organization operating within India. "This is part of the larger terrorist problem which has gripped India recently," Datta says. "They [ULFA] belong to Assam. They don't want to antagonize the Assamese...
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