Clandestine killings go on
The furtive killings have become too repetitive not to engender an aura of uncertainty in the minds of the people. This time it was a homeopath in Kushtia who was the unfortunate victim of the killers. A university teacher, the homeopath's friend, was severely injured in the same attack. The assault displays the hallmarks of all the recent killings, 15 in the last five months. Of note is the fact that the two shared common interest in the ways and lives of the Bauls.
While there has been an immediate owning up of the killings by the so called Islamic State, according to US-based SITE Intelligence Group report, what is distinctly noticeable is that these extremists and terrorist groups are singling out individuals and not going after mass targets, quiet a deliberate ploy in our assessment. Their targets they project as 'anti-Islamic' to justify the killings hoping that those would not draw adverse reaction from the majority of the people, which a large-scale attack would.
We are disturbed to see the murders going on and the government coming out with the predictable rhetoric. We see arrests by the police; but frustration among the people is growing because there has not been very definitive and evidential breakthrough in the cases notwithstanding the agencies' claim of netting the suspects in most of the similar killings of minorities and people with different views and ideologies since 2013. We fear frustration might give way to more unease and sapping of public confidence in the administration if the masterminds are not netted and the network not neutralised and the spate of the secretive killings arrested soon.
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