"It was the holy month of Ramazan, the auspicious day of Jumma. The Holey Artisan Bakery in the affluent Gulshan Thana area of Dhaka was teeming with foreign guests when five militants barged in, chanting âAllah Hu Akbarâ. Dozens of people were taken hostages on gunpoint and asked to recite the verses of Quran. Those who could recite from memory were spared in an effort to only kill non-Muslims. According to eyewitnesses, the assailants clearly stated they would not harm Muslims. Those who did not fit their criteria were slain with sharp weapons. People across religions and nationalities were aghast alike. How could the minds of these educated young men from well-to-do backgrounds be poisoned to such an extent? What was the motive behind the attack? These questions have bothered me after every such incident. I have been covering terror incidents in India for some years now and the Bangladesh attack brought back all those unhappy memories. Bangladesh is too close a neighbour to ignore such an attack occurring there."
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Tiwari, D. P., (2019). The great indian conspiracy. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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