Anti-terror operation in Mirpur
In yet another anti-terror operation at a six-storey building in Mirpur, law enforcers recovered several incinerated bodies, presumably of militants who apparently had killed themselves by conducting a series of explosions. According to South Asia Terrorism Portal, a database tracking terror activities across South Asia, Bangladesh witnessed seven major terror incidents involving large-scale operations and casualties until this latest incident.
This incident shows the extent to which the militants are willing to go to keep their agenda afloat. If they had been captured alive, the law enforcement agencies could have extracted valuable information by interrogating them. But those militants were ready to kill themselves rather than be caught alive.
It also illustrates that while the law enforcers are continuing to go after militants, the terror threat is yet to be exterminated fully. That the militants have been neutralised before they could cause serious harm to innocent people is an indication of good intelligence work. However, as we have said in the past, we cannot afford to be euphoric over our successful raids. We have to maintain constant vigilance, exercise caution, employ human intelligence, and above all, keep people aware in order to contain, and eventually defeat, the phenomenon.
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