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Ten Bangladesh militants are condemned to death | Ten Bangladesh militants are condemned to death |
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A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 10 Islamist militants to death for assisting a suicide bombing in 2005 which killed eight people near a courthouse in the town of Gazipur. | |
Police at the time described it as the country's first suicide bombing. | Police at the time described it as the country's first suicide bombing. |
The condemned men, all members of the banned JMB militant group, showed no remorse after a judge sentenced them in a crowded Dhaka courtroom. | The condemned men, all members of the banned JMB militant group, showed no remorse after a judge sentenced them in a crowded Dhaka courtroom. |
The JMB man who carried out the attack was also killed. | |
Prosecutors say that he was dressed in a traditional lawyers' gown which enabled him to enter a lawyers' office office in Gazipur - just north of Dhaka - without creating suspicion. He then detonated his explosives. | Prosecutors say that he was dressed in a traditional lawyers' gown which enabled him to enter a lawyers' office office in Gazipur - just north of Dhaka - without creating suspicion. He then detonated his explosives. |
Special public prosecutor Rafiqul Islam told the AFP news agency that the condemned men assisted the bomber in making the bomb, providing him with information and planning. | Special public prosecutor Rafiqul Islam told the AFP news agency that the condemned men assisted the bomber in making the bomb, providing him with information and planning. |
Judge Motaher Hossain, sitting in a fast-track court set up by the government, ordered the sentences to be carried out by hanging. | Judge Motaher Hossain, sitting in a fast-track court set up by the government, ordered the sentences to be carried out by hanging. |
The attack was one of several of blasts carried out by the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) in 2005, prompting concern that the moderate Muslim-majority nation was being subjected to an insurgency similar to that being waged by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. | The attack was one of several of blasts carried out by the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) in 2005, prompting concern that the moderate Muslim-majority nation was being subjected to an insurgency similar to that being waged by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
On 17 August 2005 - three months before the Gazipur attack - more than 300 explosions took place simultaneously in 50 cities and towns across the country in one day, including the capital Dhaka. | On 17 August 2005 - three months before the Gazipur attack - more than 300 explosions took place simultaneously in 50 cities and towns across the country in one day, including the capital Dhaka. |
JMB head Abdur Rahman and his deputy Siddiqul Islam, known as Bangla Bhai, were among six JMB militants hanged in 2007 for orchestrating the attacks. | JMB head Abdur Rahman and his deputy Siddiqul Islam, known as Bangla Bhai, were among six JMB militants hanged in 2007 for orchestrating the attacks. |
During their trial, the two men said they had targeted the judiciary because it was run by secular rather than Sharia law. | During their trial, the two men said they had targeted the judiciary because it was run by secular rather than Sharia law. |
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