Bangladesh arrests 4 suspected militants

DHAKA: Bangladesh Special Forces arrested four suspected militants in the southern port city of Chittagong on Monday and seized a stash of small arms believed to be destined for a nearby training camp, a senior commander said.
Lt. Col. Miftah Uddin, head of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the Chittagong region, said his forces raided a hotel following a tip-off and arrested militant leader Mohammed Mojaher.
Three of his accomplices were detained separately in the city, and Mojaher confessed to supplying weapons to a militant training camp in Banshkhali, a remote, hilly area in the Chittagong region, Miftah said.
In February, special forces raided a Banshkhali training camp operated by a militant network believed to be planning attacks across the country.
Sources in the RAB said they believed the camps were run by an armed wing of the student front for Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party, which opposes the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina opened an inquiry in 2010 into crimes committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, since when several Jamaat leaders have been sentenced to death by two war crimes tribunals.