This single slide graphically outlines the recent reports in the media of how Pakistan based terrorist group the Lashkar e Taiyyaba exploited the Rohingy-Burmese faultline in Myanmar to advantage and manipulated a terrorist attack on the revered Mahabodhi Shrine in Bodh Gaya Bihar.Terrorist groups are increasingly using fault lines of a nation state to advantage by exploiting endemic vulnerabilities. These are the cleavages, ethnic, economic and socio-political which are accentuated in a multi ethnic and multi religious society as India. Added to this is the structural fault line of lack of state will and capacity to address terror. Countering the fault line strategy of terrorist groups will take some sagacious political and effective security management not just within the country but across the region as a whole to prevent the natural divides in societies develop into running sores that may be exploited by groups with inimical interests to advantage. Playing politics with any act of violence is dangerous as the outcome is on larger national security and is to the benefit of the terrorists. At the same time there is no substitute to substantially increase counter terror capacity at the grass roots, the district, sub district and the police post level at which such acts take place. Basic drills to be undertaken once a terror threat warning is issued need to be evolved in the form of a SOP and these implemented in letter and spirit if India is to be one day become terror free. The August issue of South Asia Security Trends covers these and other trends in security in the Sub Continent

1. TERRORISM – EXPLOITING THE FAULT LINES
07 JULY - BODH GAYA
INDIA- SERIAL BOMB
INCIDENT –
SUSPECTED
ROHINGYA RELATED
Suspected Rohingya
terror training camps
by Laskha E Taiyyaba
in Chittagong Hill
Tracts (CHT)
NOTE –CREATED BASED ON
MEDIA REPORTS
Rohingya –
Burmese clashes
2012