Islamic Militancy Rises in Blood-Stained Bangladesh Orchards

As dusk falls on the mango orchards in northern Bangladesh, Zem Ali and about a dozen other men leave their mud-thatched homes to sleep under the stars.

The nightly ritual began in January when the body of Motiur Rahman, Ali’s 25-year-old brother, was found riddled with bullets in a pool of blood. He was last seen alive in the hands of the Rapid Action Battalion, an anti-terrorism squad that reports to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed.