Chittagong Division (Islamist Terrorism): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2019

Security Forces (SFs) arrested two United People's Democratic Front-Prasit group (UPDF-P) member, Sumanta Chakma, (20) and Dipankar Chakma, (22), in Laxmichhari area of Khagrachari district, reports Daily Star. SFs recovered a US-made M4A1 assault rifle and 53 bullets from them. Read less...

Police on January 3 detained 31 Rohingyas, including women and children, from Eidgah Intersection of Cumilla city, reports Daily Star. Of them, Shah Alam, (30), son of Aman Hossain, Shafi Alam, (24), son of Ala Mia, Habibulla, (40), son of Yakub Nabi, Minara Begum, (25), wife of Shah Alam, Yakubnabi, 63), Abu Syed, (58), hail from Bolibazar in Mongdu district of neighbouring Myanmar. Shah Alam said they went to Jammu in India from Myanmar about three years ago. They entered Bangladesh following the Indian government's decision to push them back to Myanmar. "We first travelled to Delhi from Jammu and then to Agartala in Tripura by train. Instead of going to my home country Myanmar, I entered Bangladesh as some of my relatives live in Cox's Bazar," Shah Alam said. Read less...

A group of unidentified criminals killed a member of MN Larma faction of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma), Bashu Chakma, (40), near Babupara Community Centre in Baghaichhari upazila on January 4, reports Daily Star. Read less...

The Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police said they had arrested member of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), “chief of private universities unit in Chattogram” Sabqat Ahmed (20), in the city's Kotwali area on January 6, reports Daily Star on January 8. Read less...

Police arrested two Arakan Liberation members, Chaching Marma, (29) and Ungshingnu Marma, from Gabachhari forest area of Raikhali union in Kaptai upazila (sub District) on January 9, reports Dhaka Tribune. Police recovered one G3 rifle, 24 rounds of bullets, two magazines, and an ammunition pouch were recovered from them. Read less...

Hefajat-e Islam (HeI) Chief Shah Ahmed Shafi on January 11 made parents promise that they won't send their daughters to school, reports Daily Star. Addressing a rally the Islamist leader said girls should not receive schooling beyond grade IV or V because education would make them disobedient. Shah Ahmed Shafi said this while addressing a gathering at Darul-Ulum Moinul Islam Madrasa in Hathazari upazila (sub District) of Chattogram. Read less...

The Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police claimed to have arrested a Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) militant, Fahad Bin Solaiman (18), in Chawakbazar area the city on January 14, reports Daily Star. Read less...

Hizb ut-Tahrir is campaigning secretly in Chattogram city, targeting private university students to recruit fresh operatives, said officials of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, reports Daily Star. To strengthen the outfit's organisational activities, its leaders and operatives are working in several groups and picking new members who have good academic and family backgrounds, the officials said. As part of its strategy, the HuT men are regularly holding meetings and carrying out other organisational activities in different parts of the city. They have chosen busy intersections and playgrounds for their regular meetings to dodge the eyes of law enforcement agencies. Read less...