Day: July 6, 2016

Shakhawat Liton: The dangerous fate of Fahim, Rohan, Mubasher and Nibras shows how our youths are becoming weapons of destruction if they are brainwashed and transformed into militants. Faizullah Fahim, who was killed in a so-called “gunfight” with police on June 18, was an accused of attempting to murder a Madaripur college teacher by hacking him. The 18-year-old disappeared in the middle of his HSC exam and travelled to Madaripur from Dhaka to kill the Hindu teacher. His father filed a “missing person” diary with a police station in the capital on June 11, but found him only after he was dead. Shocked by the untimely demise of his son, Golam Faruk said his son was brainwashed by some unknown persons. Two weeks later, we found three more youths who in a similar fashion had gone missing be...

    The holy month of Ramadan will end on July 6, when over 1.6 billion Muslims around the world will celebrate the end of the fasting month with the festival of Eid. Ramadan was marked by violence this year, with a series of terrorist attacks at several areas dominated by Muslims. On July 5, a suicide attack outside the Saudi city of Medina—the resting place of the Prophet Mohammed and the second-most holy site in Islam—killed at least four security officers and injured five others. This was just two days after 125 Ramadan shoppers were killed and around 150 injured when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in Baghdad, Iraq. And on July 1, at least 20 people were killed by gunmen in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka after a 10-hour-long hostage situation at an upmarket cafe in...