When the population was fleeing, they captured some people and cut them up with machetes,” he said. The ADF have killed hundreds of people since late October last year when the army began an operation to oust them from their bases near the Ugandan border. Following two months of relative quiet, the area has seen a rise in violent ADF attacks in the last three weeks, KST said in a statement to Reuters. It is very clear, however, that the ADF hasn’t been dismantled at any point,” it said. The redeployment of army units further north as well as moral and financial fatigue may have given the ADF more space to operate, it added.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 27, 2020 03:45 UTC