Hindus in Bangladesh

Muslims carried out targeted attacks in the form of idol vandalism, desecration and physical attacks on Durga Puja mandaps and pandals. Hindu devotees were stabbed, attacked with stones and intimidated against celebrating the annual festival.

Chittagong Cultural Academy attempted to rationalise the desecration of the puja mandap by claiming that the song was about promoting 'harmony.'

The Buddhist monks accused that the officials were involved in the violence against the minority community in Bangladesh.

The 'Bangladesh Out' movement was borne out of the necessity to stop funding a rogue State, which has fallen into the hands of Islamists since the 5th of August this year.

The onslaught on the Hindu community has continued unabated since the fall of Dhaka and the undemocratic ouster of Sheikh Hasina on 5th August this year.

A mob of radical Muslims gathered outside the Patiya police station. They demanded the handover of Partha Biswas Pintu so that they could lynch him like Utsab Mandal.

Mia entered the premises of Gobindajew temple in the wee hours of Wednesday and began destroying the idols, which had been sculpted for the past 20 days.

The Vested Property Act has been nothing but a cruel mockery of the Hindus suffering atrocities from all sides. First from the tyrant undivided Pakistan, and later from the Bangladesh government after 1971 war.

Amid the ongoing violence against minorities including Hindus in Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, the Bangladesh National Hindu Alliance placed four key demands with the interim government ahead of the upcoming Durga Puja

In the meantime, prominent Bangladeshi media began discounting the religious motivation behind the attack by presenting it as a conflict between 'Bengalis and tribals.'