BBC imparted a political angle to the attacks by claiming that Hindus were largely 'supporters of Sheikh Hasina' and that any attack on them was the consequence of their political affiliation and not religious identity.
Downplaying the anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, The New Yorker’s reporter Isaac Chotiner said that there are ‘fears’ that Hindus have been targeted in this ‘revolution. This comes despite the fact that more than 205 attacks on Hindus by Islamist mobs have been reported.
The victim could not identify her perpetrators since their faces were covered. At that time, her husband was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Khulna.
ABC and several other media outlets are shrewdly trying to establish an apocryphal narrative that Hindus in Bangladesh are being persecuted not for their religious identity but for the alleged support for Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.
While the denouncement of the ongoing violence against Hindus in Bangladesh is appreciated, Vivek Ramaswamy missed some crucial points in his post. The 2024 anti-quota protests led by students were never anti-government protests since it was the Sheikh Hasina-led government which scrapped the quota for government jobs.
The demonstrators in Paris asked the interim Bangladesh govt to punish the culprits and provide appropriate compensation to the minority Hindu victims.
The embassy had intiially warned US citizens about Bangladesh's deteriorating law and order situation amid the formation of a new interim government under US asset Muhammad Yunus.