CHATTOGRAM: The accounts, typically accompanied by blurry images, are numerous: Hindu temples vandalised and set on fire in Bangladesh, majority Hindus targeted and killed.
The crowd trend serves as a reminder of how Bangladesh may turn into violence in the wake of Sheikh Hasina’s topple last summer, which many of the attacks are actually. People are forgeries, pushed by followers of the ousted PM to undermine Bangladesh’s time state.
Caught between the traditional and the overblown, Bangladesh’s Hindus, who make up about 9 % of a community that is increasingly Arab, are gripped with fear. ” Glances are rare, and companies are struggling”, said S K Nath Shymal, chairman of Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance in the coastal town of Chattogram, the middle of some of the worst new conflicts.
The NYT visited the websites of many of the claimed attacks in Dhaka and in Chattogram, the government’s second-largest area. After the arrest of a Hindu priest in November and the demise of a Muslim attorney during a rally by the wizard’s followers, Hindu residents have confirmed instances of theft and mob crime. They claimed that the actual danger they were facing had been muddied by the instances of forged or exaggerated data. Shymal claimed that all parties were “exploiting us.”
Before then, Islamic extremists were pushed to the profitability by Hasina’s authorities position. Radicals have returned more boldly now that she has been removed and an unaccountable interim government in place. In the political violence that followed her exit, hundreds of people, including many Hindus, were killed. According to group leaders, the killings of the Hindus were mainly a result of their political involvement, not their particular faith.
However, tensions have increased in recent weeks as a Hindu priest, Chinmoy Das, was detained on suspicion of denigrating Bangladesh’s symbol in a demonstration for Hindus ‘ security. The bard’s supporters gathered at the courtroom in Chattogram during his parole hearing, clashing with officers. During the turmoil, a Muslim attorney was hacked to death in vague conditions. Since then, crowds have begun to invade neighborhoods where Hindus reside, destroying churches and destroying properties. His group claimed that the monk’s attorneys were heckled by different attorneys in court and prevented from defending him.
A family-run Hindu church was set on fire and vandalized on the fringes of Dhaka on December 7 in the early hours of the morning. The landlord, Ratan Kumar Ghosh, said the attackers had thrown explosive substance into his house, which contains the church, by removing part of its tin roof. Ghosh expressed lament over how the local press had tarnished the invasion.
In Chattogram, the grounds of three churches were vandalised just, their gates and panels smashed with stones. At another church in Chattogram, it was evident that a crowd invasion had taken place, but records of the turmoil were conflicting. Proloy Chakraborty, a pastor, said a crowd had vandalised two cat statues outside the church wall. Titu Das, a local store, said the crowd had even attacked shops. A “temple was burned in Chattogram,” according to Hasina’s speech. However, Chattogram’s officials of the Hindu community refute those transactions. NYT
