Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh

The Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh was a conflict between the government of Bangladesh and the PBCP and the PBCP-J.

History
The Purbo Banglar Communist Party was founded in 1968. During the Bangladesh Liberation War the group aligned itself with Pakistan and China against Bangladeshi nationalists and the Soviet Union.

The PBCP became involved in criminal activites in the 1990s in order to finance itself. In 1993 the PBCP started a war against the BCP for control over Khulna and for ideological differences (the BCP is exclusively Maoist while the PBCP had become a mixture of Maoism and Naxalitism). In the 2000s the PBCP underwent several splits, the most important of which took place in 2003, forming the PBCP-J(Purga Banglar Communist Party-Janajuddha, dedicated to socialist revolution) thus starting an internal conflict that has killed 18 people. In 2002, Gazi Kamrul, the founder of BCP, was detained from his residence during Operation Clean Heart on 23 August 2002. Since 2005 the PBCP has begun to extend its insurrection with terrorist attacks, clashing with the government and with rival Islamist groups. In 2006, the PBCP-J also began to carry out attacks and clashed with the government. Between 2005 and 2006, 379 people died in the insurgency. After this period, the insurrection diminished in intensity from year to year with fewer incidents.

Casualties
From 1993 to 2022 there were 1,191+ deaths in the insurgency. From the period 2003-2006 (the most violent period of the insurgency) there were 724 deaths.