According to two Hindu organizations in Bangladesh, members of minority populations have experienced at least 205 problems in 52 regions since the Sheikh Hasina-led government’s drop on August 5. The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council and the Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad both provided the information in an open letter to Muhammad Yunus, 84, who was sworn in as the mind of an interim government, according to The Daily Star news.
Since Monday, Hasina, 76, resigned and fled to India after widespread protests against her authorities over a contentious quota system in work, according to the statistics, at least 205 assaults on members of minority neighborhoods have been reported in 52 regions.
Because of the fatal condition of our lives, we seek safety. We are staying up at night, guarding our houses and churches. This is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. We demand that the government recover social harmony in the country”, Nirmal Rosario, one of the three leaders of the unity government, said.
Rosario defended the state of the condition, saying that it was getting worse, and that Yunus should take the situation seriously.
Rana Dasgupta, chairman of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, and Basudev Dhar, president of the Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, signed the letter to welcome Yunus as the head of a revolutionary era inspired by the extraordinary student- and public-led mass uprising aimed at bringing about social justice and transformation.
When people’s success is moving closer to its goal, we find ourselves with sorrow and heart as we discover a vested interest group plotting to denigrate it by engaging in extraordinary violence against minority communities, according to the letter.
It claimed that Bangladesh’s immigrants ‘ continued communal violence had sprang out as a result of international condemnation and had caused widespread fear, anxiety, and confusion.
” We demand an instant end to this condition”, the statement said, citing the text.
Kajal Devnath, a praesidium part of the unity government, said,” Those involved in attacking immigrants may be brought to justice. If a majority person is attacked for political reasons, it is still intolerable. Anyone who commits a crime should be tried, but looting and burning homes wo n’t bring justice, either.
Asserting that some Hindu group members are then taking refuge in some ‘ houses, he said,” I, also, am forced to stay at a friend’s home”.
After taking the oath of office the day before, Yunus took the oath of office as the main consultant, a status similar to the prime minister, he announced the portfolio of his 16-member committee of advisors on Friday.
After weeks of dangerous anti-government demonstrations against the government led by Hasina, Yunus ‘ first task was to stabilize Bangladesh. He responded to a request from student activists to temporarily rule the nation.
According to Hossain, the interval government’s top focus right now is restoring law and order, and others will follow suit once the first goal is accomplished.
On Thursday, Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said that he stands against any ethnically based strikes amid crime against the majority Hindu community in Bangladesh.
We want to ensure that Bangladesh’s current wave of violence is slowed down, as we have already stated. Surely, we stand against any ethnically based assaults or ethnically based incitement to assault”, Haq said.
In Bangladesh, more than 230 people have died as a result of violent outbursts that have spread across the country since the Hasina government’s drop on Monday, bringing the total to 560 since the anti-quota demonstrations first started in mid-July.
According to two society leaders in Dhaka, at least two Hindu officials affiliated with the Awami League group led by Hasina were killed in the crime in Bangladesh after she fled the country. A number of Hindu churches, homes, and companies were targeted, and people were assaulted.
