C. Christine Fair on Bangladeshi Terrorism

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🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Last week, a Bangladeshi man set off a pipe bomb in the New York subway in an attempted terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State. C. Christine Fair, a professor in Georgetown University’s Peace and Security Studies Program, joined Benjamin Wittes to contextualize the incident. They discussed modern Bangladeshi terrorism, the country’s history and governance, and the significance (or lack thereof) of the attack.

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0:29.0	What's probably not appreciated is that Bangladesh itself has a lot of violent.
0:39.0	All of the political parties have these sub-light gangs that kill people for political objectives.
0:45.0	Usually to advance the interests of their party or to diminish some attribute of their competitors.
0:53.0	These are not math killing. These are really intimate forms of violence.
0:59.0	They really do like that machete that seems to be an instrument of choice.
1:03.0	And so for many, I think within the Bengali context, that is the way you kill people.
1:07.0	It is intimate violence that is incredibly gruesome.
1:11.0	As opposed to kind of killing at a distance, the intimacy of violence seems to be a part of Bangladesh's political violence.
1:21.0	I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast December 20, 2017.
1:29.0	That's the voice of Christine Fair of Georgetown University, South Asia expert extraordinaire,
1:36.0	talking about the small but incredibly densely populated nation of Bangladesh.
1:44.0	Christine joined me this week to talk about this country as the would-be bomber in New York last week hails originally from Bangladesh,
1:54.0	which has been restive with all sorts of political violence, including terrorism of late.
2:01.0	We talked about the country's history. We talked about its current governance, its relation to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
2:10.0	And we talked about the increasing numbers of Bangladesh's both from Bangladesh proper and from its diaspora who are finding their way to international terrorist groups.
2:22.0	It's the LawFair podcast, episode 270, Christine Fair on Bangladesh terrorism.
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