Bangladeshi Hindus would never have dreamed of it. The interim government under Muhammad Yunus intensified extremism and Islamic fundamentalism. What is the reason for Muhammad Yunus to incite anti-Hindu hatred in the country? A news collection about HINDU PHOBIA in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh became an independent country in 1971. In the Bangladesh Liberation War, around thirty lakh people were killed by the Pakistani army. Tens of thousands of women have been victims of sexual violence regardless of age. Pakistan has not apologized for the atrocities committed in 1971 till date. On the contrary, it has been talking about the liberation struggle of the people of Bangladesh as India’s conspiracy to break Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Pakistan plan.
Especially Jamaat-e-Islami, which is operating in Pakistan, continues to conduct protests against Bangladesh.
During Sheikh Hasina’s rule, the 1971 war criminals were selectively punished. In 2010, he created the International Criminal Court to prosecute such people. Sheikh Hasina also banned the pro-Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami.
In 2013, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Qader Molla was sentenced to death for war crimes. Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had alleged that Abdul Qader was hanged because of his loyalty to Pakistan.
After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur in 1975, India gave asylum to Sheikh Hasina. During Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule, India’s relations with Bangladesh were very close. Bilateral economic cooperation has also grown significantly. There was extensive cooperation between the two countries in the fields of trade, energy and defence.
In Bangladesh, 30 percent reservation in government jobs was given to heirs and descendants of freedom fighters. In 2018, there were protests against this reservation. Following this, the Sheikh Hasina government stopped all forms of reservation. Last year, in June, the country’s high court reinstated reservation.
After this, the protest of the youth turned into a protest against the government. The student movement marched towards the Prime Minister’s office with the sole demand that Sheikh Hasina step down. More than 300 people died in this protest. Sheikh Hasina, who was forcibly removed from the post of Prime Minister, fled the country.
The student body, which did not want military rule, forced the establishment of an interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus.
Subsequently, under the interim government of Muhammad Yunus, violent attacks and repressions against Hindus intensified. Violent attacks on Hindus and Hindu temples are nothing new in Bangladesh.
From January 2013 to September 2021, around 4,000 violent attacks on Hindus were reported by Ain O Salish Kendra, a Bangladeshi human rights group.
Subsequently, in 2021, there were massive attacks on Hindu homes and temples during the Durga Puja of the Navratri festival.
Former Bangladesh cricket team captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza’s house was set on fire. It is worth mentioning that he is a Member of Parliament of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party.
The Hindu minority in Bangladesh is viewed by pro-Pakistani extremist Islamists as supporters of Sheikh Hasina’s secular Awami League party. There have been over 300 violent attacks against Hindus in the last four months.
In this case, Hindus are demanding that a special court be set up to investigate communal atrocities and provide rehabilitation and compensation to Hindus. They have also insisted on setting up a Ministry of Minority Affairs for legal protection of temple properties and protection of minorities. Hindus have also called for a five-day holiday for Durga Puja, demanding respect for minority religious practices in Bangladeshi educational institutions and improving Pali and Sanskrit education boards.
For this, peaceful protests by Hindus and Hindu organizations are portrayed as treason. In this context, ISKCON monk Charu Chinmai Chandra Das Brahmachari, who protested against these demands, has been arrested and imprisoned on charges of treason. His 32-year-old lawyer ‘Saiful Islam’ was murdered in the Chittagong court premises.
India strongly condemns and opposes the attack on Hindus in Bangladesh.
Mohammad Yunus, the head of the Interim Government of Bangladesh, who went to the United States to attend the 79th UNGA session, met Joe Biden and Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif separately.
At the same time, PM Modi refused to meet Mohammad Yunus despite meeting many world leaders.
Last Diwali, Trump expressed his strong condemnation of the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians and other minorities in Bangladesh. After winning the presidency, Trump strongly condemned the arrest of a Hindu monk in Bangladesh.
Political experts say that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who preaches liberalism, social justice and equality, is knowingly allowing cross-border, anti-Hindu violence.
Bangladesh was established as a secular country. But in 1980, it was declared an Islamic country. In 2010, the Bangladesh Supreme Court said that the principle of secularism that was initially written into the constitution still applies in the country today.
In 1951, there were 22 percent Hindus in Bangladesh. But now only 7.5 percent are Hindus. Under the leadership of Mohammad Yunus, organized atrocities against Hindus, anti-Indian, anti-Hindu sentiment and communal riots increased in Bangladesh.
It is a bitter truth that Bangladeshi Hindus who are a minority in Bangladesh cannot be saved if not now.
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