Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh | ||||||||
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Part of Terrorism in Bangladesh | ||||||||
The location of Khulna Division. | ||||||||
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Belligerents | ||||||||
Bangladesh |
PBSP (inactive) BCP (inactive) GMF (inactive) | |||||||
Casualties and losses | ||||||||
Total: 1,191+ deaths[3][4][5] |
The Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh is a conflict between the government of Bangladesh and the PBCP and the PBCP-J.
The Purbo Banglar Communist Party was founded in 1968. During the Bangladesh Liberation War the group aligned itself with Pakistan and China against Bangladeshi nationalists and the Soviet Union.[6] [failed verification]
The PBCP became involved in criminal activities in the 1990s in order to finance itself.[7] [failed verification] In 1993 the PBCP started a war against the BCP for control over Khulna and for ideological differences (the BCP is exclusively Maoist while the PBCP had become a mixture of Maoism and Naxalitism).[5] In the 2000s the PBCP underwent several splits, the most important of which took place in 2003, forming the PBCP-J(Purga Banglar Communist Party-Janajuddha, dedicated to socialist revolution) thus starting an internal conflict that has killed 18 people.[8] In 2002, Gazi Kamrul, the founder of BCP, was detained from his residence during Operation Clean Heart on 23 August 2002.[9] Since 2005 the PBCP has begun to extend its insurrection with terrorist attacks, clashing with the government and with rival Islamist groups.[10] [failed verification] In 2006, the PBCP-J also began to carry out attacks and clashed with the government.[10] Between 2005 and 2006, 379 people died in the insurgency.[3] After this period, the insurrection diminished in intensity from year to year with fewer incidents.
Year | Deaths |
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1993 | 34 |
1994 | 8 |
1995 | 2 |
2000 | 3 |
2001 | 3 |
2002 | 43 |
2003 | 133 |
2004 | 212 |
2005 | 193 |
2006 | 186 |
2007 | 72 |
2008 | 54 |
2009 | 86 |
2010 | 39 |
2011 | 19 |
2012 | 10 |
2013 | 24 |
2014 | 12 |
2015 | 14 |
2016 | 17 |
2017 | 13 |
2018 | 8 |
2019 | 3 |
2020 | 2 |
2021 | 1 |
2022 | 0 |
2023 | 0 |
2024 | 0 |
Total | 1,191+[11][2] |
From 1993 to 2022 there were 1,191+ deaths in the insurgency. From the period 2003-2006 (the most violent period of the insurgency) there were 724 deaths.