In September of last year, an intelligence agency provided several recommendations to the Bangladesh interim government to ensure national security. The government was given detailed information about militants from banned organizations who were in prison, including their names, identities, committed crimes, the number of cases they were involved in, and the latest status of those cases. It was reported that these individuals posed a serious threat to state security. However, the government ignored the intelligence agency’s advice, and one by one, the militants were released from prison.
The Home Secretary of the interim government has been accused of being involved in terrorism. By December of last year, 11 top terrorists and 174 militants were released from prison. In August, 5,829 firearms and over 600,000 rounds of ammunition were looted. The government has shown no interest in recovering these weapons. As a result, Bangladesh has become a haven for terrorism.
Critics argue that the interim government is essentially a patron of militants and terrorists. They believe that if the government had taken the intelligence agency’s advice seriously, the current situation could have been avoided. The allegations of intentional lack of governance over law and order have raised serious concerns about the interim government’s role in fostering terrorism in the country.