Uproot them with full force

The very fact that the group has been receiving training on bomb making and waging war despite having their top leaders facing death sentence, speaks a great deal about the steam that they still have to continue with their anti-state activities. The composure with which they faced the members of the law enforcing agency indicates how strongly committed they are on fulfilling the goal of destabilising the country in order to implement their own skewed agenda. The unbending attitude very rightly raises questions about the source of their funds, strength and ideological support.

The leader of the outfit, one Mufti Abdur Rouf, is reported to be an Afghan War veteran and a diehard JMB activist having received training in Pakistan and maintaining connections with some Arakan rebel groups. We are appalled to learn that this highly dangerous anti-state person was arrested by the law enforcers twice before, first time in 1995 and second, in 2003, but both times he was set free on bail. This fact not only demolishes our confidence in the way police charge-sheet works in the county, it also points finger at the loop-holes in the laws of the land, that create opportunity for top criminals to slip away.

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We believe the arrest of the new bunch of JMB operatives and unearthing of the secret training camp in Mymensingh go to show only the tip of the iceberg. There is every possibility that many more such camps exist in the country and the law enforcing agencies have their jobs cut out. They will have to trace and clamp down on them. The nation wants to see every single JMB ring leader and field level operative appear before the court of law, and justice done to them.