Bangladesh's 7/16

This was waiting to happen and it happened due to the government's inept handling of the threat from the terrorists who have been serially killing bloggers, university teachers, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and moderate Muslims. The government was always in denial and underplayed the threats.

The mission of tarnishing the image of Bangladesh started with the ransacking of Buddhist monasteries at Ramu on September 29, 2012. But the government was never serious about bringing the perpetrators to book. Now the extremists have achieved their biggest victory to date, and succeeded to portray to the international community that militancy is gaining force in Bangladesh.

In the case of Gulshan attack, was it not a mistake to launch the rescue operation the following morning? Could the RAB not take action immediately after the first shootout? If that had been the case then the lives of the foreigners and Bangladeshis could be saved. It took several hours to slaughter all those persons throughout the whole night and the delayed operation allowed them to just do that.