The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)--an internationally acclaimed agency supported by foreign and private Bangladeshi donors--and the Grameen Bank had become the principal targets of attack, but smaller NGOs--including Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (
FIVDB), Proshika, Gono Shahajjo Shongstha and Nijera Kori--have also been harassed and attacked in Bogra, Sirajganj, Rangpur, and Nilphamari districts in the north, Sylhet district in the east, and Cox's Bazar district in the south.