Dhaka (AsiaNews) - Yesterday a Dhaka court sent to jail 24 Islamic radical females, arrested while they were planning subversion. All of them - aged between 22 and 24 years old - are university students. The girls are members of the Islami Chhatri Sangstha, female wing of Jamaat-e-Islami's student front Islami Chhatra Shibir. Jamaat is Bangladesh Islamic fundamentalist party.
Last June 18 police broke in a flat at Goran, neighborhood of Dhaka. They were holding a secret meeting. Officials said the extremists were plotting ways to thwart the trials of 1971 war criminals.
In 2013 War courts judged mostly leaders of Jamaat. Created to "give justice" to the victims of the conflict, in fact they have been a tool to decimate the leadership of Islamic party. Which took advantage of the lack of transparency of these trials to launch numerous hartal (strikes), which degenerated into clashes and violence.
The Chhatri Sangsta members threatened to burst bombs and hurled abuses while they were being arrested. Into the flat police found laptops, a projectors, anti-government leaflets and several book, including some by Jamaat leader Ghulam Azam.