Bangladesh Hindus

PTI | Last Updated: Friday, December 30, 2016 - 21:22 Dhaka: According to a report made by  Bangladesh  Jatiya Hindu Mohajote (BJHM), at least 98 people from the  Hindu community  have been murdered and 357 others injured across the country till December 29 this year. Revealing the report at a press conference held in Dhaka Reporters` Unity today, BJHM executive president Sukrtity Mandal said the report was prepared based on reports published in different newspapers and their community sources, reports the Dhaka Tribune. The BJHM president also said that around 711 people either left the country or were threatened to leave the country, while 209 idols were damaged and 22 others were stolen. He further said 22 people of their community have also been missing while 38 people were kidnapped and eight others are in jail. According to United News of Bangladesh (UNB), 1,109 Hindus received death threat and attempts were made to kill 18 others during the said period.

Biplob Ghosal   | Last Updated: Saturday, December 3, 2016 - 17:24 zeenews.india.com Dhaka: At least 20 houses of Hindus were set on fire in Bochaganj upazila of  Dinajpur  in  Bangladesh  early Saturday. A report published in  The Daily Star  said that houses of seven families of Hindus were set on fire in Railway Colony. Fortunately, no one was injured as residents managed to escape on time. A person named Jewel was held by the locals, who allegedly set the fire. The residents claimed that Jewel had been threatening them ever since a scuffle broke out during Durga Puja celebrations earlier this year. In October this year, at least 15 Hindu temples in Bangladesh were vandalised over allegations of disrespect shown to Islam on Facebook, triggering panic among the minority community in the Muslim-majority nation. Temples in Brahmanbarhia district's Nasirnagar were vandalised on besides over 100 houses of Hindus in the area have also been looted. Temples in a

12:00 AM, October 31, 2016 / LAST MODIFIED: 03:24 AM, October 31, 2016 The Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh Mayhem in B'baria Around a hundred houses, 5 Hindu temples vandalised, dozens injured in attack by religious zealots over a Facebook post A group of religious zealots yesterday carried out a synchronised attack on the Hindus in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar upazila, vandalising around 100 homes and at least five temples and looting valuables over a Facebook post “hurting Muslims' sentiment,” victims and police said. The attackers also beat up over 100 people of the minority community. The nearly two-hour long attack began around 12:00pm before police brought the situation under control after 2:00pm. The attackers ran amok through eight Hindu localities, including Kashipara, Daspara, Ghoshpara, Duttapara and Nomoshudropara, said Abdul Quader, officer-in-charge of Nasirnagar Police Station. “Around 150 to 200 locals attacked five temples

Protests in Dhaka after Avijit Roy, whose blog championed liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation, was attacked along with his wife. Bangladeshi secular activists take part in a torch-lit protest against the killing of Avijit Roy. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images A prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin has been hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, after he allegedly received threats from Islamists. The body of Avijit Roy, founder of the Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog site – which champions liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation – was found covered in blood after an attack that also left his wife critically wounded. “He died as he was brought to the hospital. His wife was also seriously wounded. She has lost a finger,” local police chief Sirajul Islam said. The couple were on a bicycle rickshaw, returning from a book fair, when two assailants stopped and dragged them on to the pavement b

Four people including two women were stabbed when supporters of a Jamaat-e-Islami activist attacked the house of a Hindu family in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat this morning. They also set the house on fire during the attack, which was made in a bid to grab the land, reports our Lalmonirhat correspondent quoting police. Later, police arrested two people for their involvement in the attack and land grabbing. At least 25 miscreants led by Abul Hossain stormed into the house of one Pushpa Rani Sen at Shafirhat village around 9:30am for grabbing her two bighas of land, said Amiruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Patgram Police Station. Being resisted by the family members, the criminals torched their house and also stabbed four family members including Pushpa, the OC added. But locals rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire, he added. The attackers left the scene before police reached there. The injured — Pushpa, 68, and her two sons Shyamol Chandra Sen, 45, and Kamol Chandr

DHAKA: A mob of nearly 3,000 attacked Hindu households and a temple in eastern Bangladesh after two youths from the community allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook.  Police on Monday arrested 17 people, including the principal of Bagmara Madrasa, for the attack on the temple and over two dozen households at Homna in Comilla district, about 100km south east of Dhaka, last week.   "We so far arrested 17 people and some of them made confessional statements regarding the attack. A manhunt is under way to arrest the rest of the culprits," police chief of Homna, Aslam Shikdar said.   He said suspected mastermind of the attack Nazrul Islam is still on the run.   The local police chief said steps were under way to put the accused on trial on charges of attacking the Hindu households and the temple under a planned manner.   A makeshift police camp was setup at the village where the incident took place on April 26 following rumours that two Hindu yo

Washington, D.C. (June 11, 2014) --The plight of religious minorities in Bangladesh took center stage on Capitol Hill yesterday, as the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) marked its 11th Annual D.C. Advocacy Days.  Hindu American delegates from around the country met with nearly 80 Congressional offices, asking them to support a bipartisan Congressional letter, spearheaded by Representatives Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Aaron Schock (R-IL), that urges U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make human rights and the protection of minorities in Bangladesh a priority in U.S. - Bangladesh relations.  Rep. Gabbard receiving HAF's Pride of the Community Award from Rishi Bhutada, Board member "Promoting a stable and democratic Bangladesh is important to U.S. economic, political and security interests in the South Asia region," wrote Reps. Gabbard and Schock in a message circulated to their colleagues earlier today. "Under domestic law, the Bangladesh government is obliged to

On May 11, 2014, a team comprising almost 200 radical Muslim youths led by Bajlur Rahman Nayeem, local leader of Awami League at Niyamatpur sub-district within the district of Naogaon in Bangladesh, assailed a temple of the minority Hindu community located beside the crematorium there. It has been learnt, radicals came in motorbikes and also on foot and within a few minutes both temple and hallowed deity within it were defiled, destroyed and also razed to the ground sending a shudder of fear among Hindus living in the adjoining villages of Maharajpur, Kochpara, Kutubpur and Manpur. The Shiva temple was built up only a few months back and Kirtan used to happen in the temple premises daily in the evening. The attack took place while Hindus were preparing for Kirtan. The attack, as found later on, was an aggression to grab the Hindu property. As part of the attack, a few Hindus including Dayal Chandra Seal, Dwijen Chabdra Barman and Naren Karmakar were beaten mercilessly and they h