Media Portrays Harrowing Experiences of Hindus in Bangladesh
Islamic governance remains
unimpressed
The fate of Hindus in Bangladesh
is clear-cut and with each day it passes the threat of racial extermination of
them is rising there. And this is certainly not any new development – ever since
the partition of Indian subcontinent on religious basis in 1947, Hindus in
Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan) have been living under a constant threat. The
genocide of innocent Hindus in Noakhali, 1946 was the beginning in recorded
history and in the following decades it has risen only to the greatest extent. The
fallout of which has been the steady reduction of Hindus on the other side of
the border – the Hindu community having 28% of the entire population during 1947-48
has come down to a staggering number of 9% (at the moment) merely.
The ghastly incidents following
Shahbag happens to be the latest revelation – the movement that tried immensely
to rectify Bangladesh’s history through demanding stringent punishment of Islamic
accomplices to the murderous Army of Pakistan during the protracted freedom
struggle for Bangladesh is 1971 has turned into a catastrophe for Hindus there altogether.
The Shahbag struggle that was
deemed as an internal conflict between Muslims in Bangladesh and in return
Muslim radicals there found its hapless victims soon and it was none save the
Hindu community.
Islamists there termed the entire
struggle as the brainchild of Hindus and also of India and to avenge the same,
they have been busy in inflicting the worst religious persecution of Hindus. Not
the Hindus in Bangladesh, at this time, have been ravaged only but the administration
there other than rendering lip services remains silent also.
Whether it is Jessore or Pabna or
Mymensingh or Chittagong, everywhere Hindus were thrashed brutally, their
womenfolk were outraged once more, let alone seizure or brutal destruction of
Hindu properties.
Reports of all these horrendous
developments were published in local newspapers in a large number but to no avail.
While the same reports or anxieties over the fate of Hindus reached the corridors
of power in faraway United States or United Kingdom or Germany or Canada even making
political stratum there anxious of the entire development, it failed to move
the Bangladeshi administration.
You can have a sense of it
through the clippings attached.
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Hindu
Samhati regularly monitors and reports violations against Hindus in West
Bengal. We also work with both governmental and NGO agencies for proper
education on protection and ensure remedies to the Hindu populace as per
prevailing law of the land.
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