New Delhi: Rupa. But we need to be judicious while moderating your comments. The relevant parameter is obviously ‘migration’ which provides a clue to the missing link. Volume I. A similar wave of violence against minorities in 2001, when the BNP was in power, prompted an exodus of Hindus out of the country; followed by yet another campaign during the 2008 election. But the Government of India remained silent. Apart from physical attacks and forcible conversions, our livelihoods often come under attack. Hinduism. Mr. Deb added that he felt the police and local officials “failed to ensure the security of the Hindu community, even after knowing about the tension and the rally.”. “I spoke from my position as a minority right activist. Try to avoid outside hyperlinks inside the comment. April 25: A local group attacked and vandalized the house of Rabidas and grabbed property at Sariyakandi in Bogra district. Riaz counted India's stand on the Rohingya crisis, the sharing of water between the two neighbours, border killings and trade deficit, as the reasons for the rising discontent. Copyright: Swarajya. Also read: Dhaka And Its Islamist Apologists Are Wrong: Religious Persecution Is A Way of Life For Minorities In Bangladesh. 21 Hindu families were evicted from their settlements and 14 Hindu families forced to leave the country," the federation said in a statement on Saturday. Prior to the 1971 war, Hindus comprised almost one-third (30 percent) of the population. "The legacy of discriminatory laws has continued for the past 48 years, causing communal hatred and discontent between Hindus and Muslims," Nath told DW. Human Rights Watch, the New York-based activist group, said of the recent turmoil: "Members of the [J-e-I] and its youth wing, [Jamaat] Shibir, alongside supporters of the [BNP] have engaged in countless attacks on security forces and others.” HRW added that the attacks included “throwing homemade grenades and petrol bombs at police, arson attacks to enforce a road blockade, derailing passenger trains, setting fire to the homes and businesses of the Hindus and the Awami League officials, and throwing grenades into crowded streets.". We deliver over 10 - 15 high quality articles with expert insights and views. Hinduism is the second largest religion in the country. “Islamist violence directed towards the Hindu community is all too familiar.”, “Jamaat-Shibir has created a situation of panic in and around the village,” a Hindu grocer in Ramganj named Jaynto Mondol told The Diplomat. ”The idea of the J-e-I seizing power in Bangladesh is a non-starter,” he said. The report was rejected by the BNP-Jamaat coalition and they accused the investigation of being partisan. What may cut short all denials of this continued pestering of Hindus in Muslim states, are the resulting migration figures: in 1948, Hindus formed 23% of the population of Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), in 1971 the figure was down to 15%, and today it stands at about 8%. She noted that the 1974 census said the country's minority population reduced by over a third to 14.6 percent. The ‘genocide’ against Chakmas in the CHT has been well documented (read this, this, this and this), and successive governments in Bangladesh have encouraged crimes against the indigenous people in the CHT. "I strongly feel that what is happening to the Hindu community in Bangladesh definitely falls under the definition of crimes against humanity," she said. “Jamaat-Shibir has created a situation of panic in and around the village,” a Hindu grocer in Ramganj named Jaynto Mondol told The Diplomat. “The Missing Population”, Holiday, Weekly, Dhaka, 7 January 1994. From 7AM in the morning to 10PM late night we operate to ensure you, the reader, get to see what is just right. Indians naturally feel incensed by the happenings in East Bengal. Bangladesh's booming economy and India's slowing economy could potentially reverse years of Hindu migration to India,” said the report. Hindu Temples and Homes in Bangladesh Are Attacked by Muslim Crowds. April 26: The miscreants vandalized idols and set fire to two temples in Laxmipur municipal town. A small number are scattered in other parts of the country, including Tangail and Dhaka. This report in Dhaka Tribune describes the destruction of four murtis at a Kali Mandir in Ghazipur city near Dhaka on September 10 night. Faisal Mahmud is a Dhaka-based journalist covering Bangladesh for several international news outlets, including Al Jazeera, Asia Times and the Wire. University of Texas at Austin. “Even in 1971, during the Liberation War, Nasirnagar was a safe place for Hindus, when many Hindus were killed and tortured in other parts of Bangladesh,” he … It is an attempt to use these minorities as pawns to bargain for the release of [1971 war] criminals facing trial under the tribunal. Hinduism is the second largest religious affiliation in Bangladesh, covering about 8.54% of the population, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics for 2011 Bangladesh census. The Parishad says that Bangladesh’s minorities--Hindus, Buddhists and Christians--are desperately looking up to the international community, especially India, to exert pressure on the government to adopt firm measures to curb Islamic radicalism and protect the country’s minorities from certain annihilation. “The government is not doing anything and, instead, it seems that it is actually encouraging the genocide. "It is the responsibility of the state to give them protection, to restore their trust as well as the belief that Bangladesh is a safe place for them," Kamal said. Benkin, Richard L. (2012). The report found evidence of targeted violence against the Hindu community by 25 thousand people which included 25 Ministers and Members of Parliament of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance government. April 13: A helpless widow Basna Rani Das and her son and daughter were brutally beaten up and injured by local criminals who also grabbed her house and other properties. In 1989 and 1990, due to "large-scale destruction, desecration and damage inflicted on Hindu temples and religious institutions", "clandestine migration by the Hindus to India went up". April 23: The miscreants killed a Hindu man Subrata Mandal (30) at Dakop upazila in Khulna district. “Even in 1971, during the Liberation War, Nasirnagar was a safe place for Hindus, when many Hindus were killed and tortured in other parts of Bangladesh,” he said. "The human rights situation is becoming worse day by day in Bangladesh but unfortunately no one has been arrested yet," the federation lamented. The goon captured Raha’s house and property and forced him out of his house. Images of deities were broken and thrown out. To bring the situation under control and to prescribe the right remedy for the situation it is essential that the malady be properly diagnosed. Deutsche Welle, the German broadcaster, reported that the latest round of violence represented the second such wave of anti-Hindu attacks in less than a year. Dr. Michael Kugelman, senior program associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, said the J-e-I views the war crimes trials as a politically motivated campaign by the Awami League to discredit the Islamists and nationalists, while appeasing Hindu-dominated India, which has quietly pressed for prosecution of suspected war criminals from the devastating 1971 civil war that created Bangladesh. Ali Riaz, professor of politics and government at Illinois State University in the United States, told this correspondent that the Bangladeshi state, irrespective of which party is in power, has failed the minorities - religious, ethnic and others - since its inception. Muktiforum editor Roy agreed, saying the situation is more complex than a simple narrative of communal hatred towards the Bangladeshi Hindus. Sukumar Barua, an advocate and Chakma Buddhist activist, told Swarajya over phone from Dhaka that of late, atrocities against the indigenous people in CHT has increased. Over 14 million Bangladeshis identify themselves as Hindus. April 21: Thirty Hindu families were attacked in Satkania by a local group of 60 people. April 11: A local goon demanded 5 lakhs taka from a Hindu businessman Asit Kumar Sarkar, who is a resident of Titukandi village in Alamdanga upazilla in Faridpur district. April 24: The goons attacked a Hindu family at Mongla in Bagerhat district with the intention of evicting them from their homes. Swarajya - a big tent for liberal right of centre discourse that reaches out, engages and caters to the new India. GUWAHATI: The World Hindu Federation, Bangladesh chapter, has alleged that the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh increased during the COVID-19 lockdown. According to this report in a local newspaper, the victim, a Buddhist, was lured by the promise of marriage by her Muslim paramour and taken to a jungle where she was gangraped. ", Elst, Koenraad (2001). 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April 22: The criminals vandalized a temple and attacked several Hindu houses at Akkelpur municipal area of Joypurhat district for obstructing gambling at the Parghati temple. According to Mahajote leaders, the hate crimes against Hindus this month is long and painful: brutal assault on fifteen Hindus, including nine women, molestation of three Hindu girls, forcible conversion of two Hindus, attacks on and destruction of properties and homes of 23 Hindu families, desecration and looting of four Hindu temples, and forcible takeover of farmlands of six Hindus. Bangladesh’s highest circulated daily, Prothom Alo, also carried a number of reports in which it said, the CAA will create anxiety and tension in Bangladesh, where "a huge number of the population has been historically anti-India" and "the number is increasing. Gobinda Chandra Pramanik, the secretary general of Bangladesh National Hindu Mahajote, a group that works for the interest of Bangladeshi Hindus, told this correspondent that there were a number of attacks on the community after the BNP-Jamaat coalition government came to power in 2001. It was partitioned from India, and later from Pakistan, after the Indian subcontinent attained its independence from Great Britain.The nation is only behind Indonesia, Pakistan, and India in global Muslim population.Most Bangladeshis are Sunni Muslims, while Hindus are the largest religious minority in the … Bengali Muslims are still being settled in the CHT in large numbers,” he said. According to the book, “Hindu Deaths After 2001 election”, supporters of the BNP raped at least 10 Hindu females in the island district of Bhola and looted several Hindu houses.
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