Yaatri
Dec 6, 04, 12:56 pm
Indian cricket team due to visit Bangladesh was threatened with death in a had written not faxed to the Indian High COmmission in Dacca.
The threat was made Sunday in a hand-written fax to the High Commission purportedly sent by a little-known radical Islamic group calling itself Harkat-ul-Zihad.
Bangladeshi authorities suspect the locally based Harkat-ul-Zihad was behind an assassination bid on leading secular poet Shamsur Rahman here in 1998.
The therat was meant to to be in retaliation to killing of Muslims in Gujrat during Hindu-Muslim riots, which erupted after some Muslims reportedly set fire to a train carryin Hindy Pilgrims.
Eye for an eye leaving the whole world blind.
"In revenge for the killing of 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat, we are going to kill Indian cricketers if they visit Bangladesh," High Commission officials quoted the letter as saying.
The riots in Gujarat erupted after a suspected Muslim mob set alight a train, burning to death 59 Hindu pilgrims and other passengers.
The first test was set for Dhaka from December 9 and the second match in the eastern port city of Chittagong from December 16.
The threat was made Sunday in a hand-written fax to the High Commission purportedly sent by a little-known radical Islamic group calling itself Harkat-ul-Zihad.
Bangladeshi authorities suspect the locally based Harkat-ul-Zihad was behind an assassination bid on leading secular poet Shamsur Rahman here in 1998.
The therat was meant to to be in retaliation to killing of Muslims in Gujrat during Hindu-Muslim riots, which erupted after some Muslims reportedly set fire to a train carryin Hindy Pilgrims.
Eye for an eye leaving the whole world blind.
"In revenge for the killing of 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat, we are going to kill Indian cricketers if they visit Bangladesh," High Commission officials quoted the letter as saying.
The riots in Gujarat erupted after a suspected Muslim mob set alight a train, burning to death 59 Hindu pilgrims and other passengers.
The first test was set for Dhaka from December 9 and the second match in the eastern port city of Chittagong from December 16.