Bangladesh Hindus

  Dated 18-Aug-2013 Guest Column: By Kazi Anwarul Masud  The line of control along Jammu & Kashmir is being violated repeatedly. India accuses Pakistan of the violations that is denied by Pakistan.   In recent weeks the beheading of an Indian soldier and killing of five Indian soldiers- four from Bihar and one from Maharashtra-resulted in fury of the common people demanding that the killers be punished. Politics waded into these incidents by the confusing statements by the Defense Minister.   The first comment that the killers were wearing dresses of Pakistan army was seen by the opposition and the media as exonerating Pakistan and hence a clearer statement was asked for from the Defense Minister. The army chief visited the area nearby( his helicopter could not go to the area of fighting due to inclement weather) and on return reported to the Defense Minister who then gave a statement in Parliament that directly accused Pakistan of these violati...

    Idols vandalised at Durga Temple in Bhola Achinta Majumder, Bhola         Idols had been vandalised by fanatic thugs at night at a Sarbajanin Durga Temple in Tajumuddin upazilla of Bhola district. This terrible incident happened at midnight of last Monday at Daserhat Sanbajanin Durga Temple in the village of Aralia under union of Chandpur in Tajumudding upazilla.   General Secretary of Daserhat Sarbajanin Puja Celebration Committee Sri Choton Chandra Das told that devotees were at the temple until 2am. When everybody left the fanatic miscreants entered in the temple and vandalised Sri Ganesh idol. Devotees noticed the incident when they came in the temple next day (Tuesday).   Higher officers of administration including Upazilla Nirbahi Officer visited temple on Tuesday.   Officer in Charge of Tajumuddin thana Mr. Abul Hossain told that police posted for temple safety and investigation is...

Bdnews24.com http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/09/08/two-temples-vandalized Unidentified persons have vandalised idols at two temples of Hindu goddess Kali in Netrokona Sadar.   The desecrations of ‘Sharbojonin Kali Mondir’ at village Betati and ‘Sharbojonin Mondir’ at Jongolboruari village are believed to have taken place sometime during Saturday night, said Netrokona Model Police Station OC SM Mofizul Islam. A devotee, who came to make offerings at the temple in Betati around Sunday noon, discovered the broken idol. Netrokona Model Police Station OC SM Mofizul Islam and Nirmol Das, president of the District Pooja Celebration Committee, visited the temple. At Jongolboruari village the idols of goddess Kali and Mahadeb were found wrecked, said Nirmol Das and Pankaj Saha Roy, secretary of Upazila Pooja Celebration Committee. The vandal had broken into the temple and beheaded the idols and left the heads lying inside. OC SM Mofizul said he has heard of...

Created on August 28, 2013 at 01:14 Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Bogra   Dhaka Trubune http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2013/aug/28/1100-year-old-pala-dynasty-temple-unearthed-dinajpur       Archaeologists from Jahangirnagar University (JU) have excavated an ancient Hindu temple at Belwa village of Ghoraghat upazila in Dinajpur. The massive brick structure has been identified as a Hindu temple from the Pala dynasty.   The chief of the project, Professor Syed Mohammad Kamrul, told journalists that the excavated site was under threat of destruction.   Swadhin Sen, associate professor of archaeology at JU, said the temple, approximately 1,100-years-old, was a major archaeological discovery in Bangladesh.   “Multiple deities were worshiped at the temple at the same time,” said Prof Sen.   He added that several fragments of black sandstone sculptures had been identified and documented from the excavation.   ...

Dated 12-Aug-2013 By Dr. Subhash Kapila   Introductory Observations   Bangladesh next General Elections could be held in 2013 at the year- end but since January 20 2014 is the outside limit as per the Constitution, they are being termed as General Elections2014. Therefore Bangladesh at the outside limit is only five months away from General Elections 2014 which could turn out as probably the most significant elections held so far.   Bangladesh stands today at crucial political cross-roads where the nation was engulfed in 2013 with incessant violence centred on the politics of national identity on one hand and opposed on the other side by political groupings banking on the religion of Islam in electoral politics, desperately bent on pushing Bangladesh towards an Islamist Caliphate.   The Shahbagh Protests that erupted in early 2013 were an expression, going by the large-scale participation of Bangladesh youth of both sexes and women protestors ...

Dated 06-Aug-2013 By Bhaskar Roy   On August 01, the Bangladesh High Court finally delivered a judgement warning those bent on reversing the spirit of liberation that the nation will not give up on its principles.    The court declared that the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) Bangladesh’s registration with the Election Commission (EC) stood null and void.  This will debar the party from contesting the next elections.   The JEI is, however, free to appeal to the Supreme Court or change its constitution in line with the Constitution of the country and the Representation of Peoples Order (RPO).   The High Court verdict come on a public interest litigation filed by the secretary general of the Bangladesh Tarikat Federation’s (BTF) Rezaqul Haque Choudhary and 24 others in January 2009, challenging the legality of the JEI registration as a political party.  The matter could come up because the Supreme Court barred the use of religion in politics...

The Times of India   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com   IANS | Aug 4, 2013, 05.32 PM IST   AGARTALA: Over 1,500 tribals in Bangladesh fled to the Indian border along Tripura seeking refuge after ethnic strife broke out with non-tribal Muslims, officials said here on Sunday. "Over 1,500 men, women and children of Chakma and Tripuri tribes have taken shelter in the India-Bangladesh border village at Karbook after fleeing from five villages in Khagrachari district," Border Security Force (BSF) deputy inspector general Bhaskar Rawat told IANS. "The tribals entered Indian territory on Saturday evening after ethnic troubles in Bangladesh. They were stopped at the border by the BSF . We are providing them food and other assistance." The tribals, mostly Buddhists and Hindus, fled the Chittagong Hill Tracts after clashes over the reported abduction of a local leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition in Bangladesh led by for...

The New Nation 5th August, 2013 http://nation.ittefaq.com/ UPDF road blockade today UNB, Khagrachhari  Around 50 houses of indigenous families were reportedly set on fire by some miscreants in Matiranga upazila here on Saturday.  Locals said, unidentified miscreants set fire to the houses at Bandar Shing para, Boga para, Manudas para and Laku headman para following abduction of Md Kamal,32, a motorbike rider, from Taindang area in the uapzila on Saturday noon. The victims deserted the houses following the incident.  United People's Democratic Front (UPDF), anti-peace treaty organization, staged demonstration in the district town in the evening protesting the incident. It will enforce a dawn-to-dusk road blockade progamme in the district Monday demanding punishment to the responsible people and compensation for the victims.  Deputy Commissioner Md Masud Karim said 6/7 houses were torched and additional police and BGB members were deployed to avert fur...

Devotees are building Ma Manasha temple in the heart of patuakahli town of Bangladesh. Please help generously to finish temple construction and get Ma's blessings. For donation and more information about temple please contact Sri Amal Karmakar at his email address amal_karmakar @yahoo.com . ( 

TNN | Jul 26, 2013, 04.33 AM IST   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com   NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses of the Centre and 18 states to a PIL which pleaded that Hindus migrating to India to escape religious persecution in Bangladesh must not be bracketed with other illegal migrants and pushed back or deported. The PIL by NGO "Swajan" through advocate Shuvodeep Roy has been knocking at the doors of the apex court since August last year. It had only focused on Assam , terming the problem as peculiar to it. However, a bench of Justices P Sathasivam (as he then was) and Ranjan Gogoi had told Roy to do more research on the issue saying the problem of Hindus coming from Bangladesh into India was not confined only to the northeastern state. Nearly nine months later, counsel for the NGO, senior advocates MN Krishnamani and Pinky Anand, told the bench of Chief Justice Sathasivam and Justice Gogoi that the court was right in its assessmen...

Awami League leader Emdad Ali and his 100-150 followers  attacked a Hindu colony and destroyed 8-10 houses in Muktagacha of Mymensingh district of Bangladesh according to The Daily Sambad (24th July 2013, http://www.sangbad.com.bd ). Mr Emdad Ali is the president of Bashati Union Awami League branch. The houses belong to Sri Nirmal Chandra and his relatives. Police did not arrest the thugs Emdad Ali and his associates yet.     We demand their immediate arrest and strong punishment so next time nobody will dare to torture Hindus and innocent people in future. We also demand enough compensation for the victims. 

Dated 22-Jul-2013 By Bhaskar Roy   Bangladesh Foreign Minister Ms. Dipy Moni will be in New Delhi on July 25, 2013 on a three day visit.  It is expected to be a preparatory one paving the way for Prime Minister Sk. Hasina’s official visit in August at the invitation of the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh.   Ms. Dipu Moni is well regarded in India for her professionalism, and promoting Bangladesh both with India and internationally.  This time, however, she has a difficult job because detractors and critics back home are focussed more on difficult issues than on the doables and what is being done.   At the end, however, it is not Ms. Dipu Moni, but Prime Minister Sk. Hasina who will be questioned by the opposition on two important issues – Teesta river water agreement and ratification by India of the 1974 Indira-Mujib land boundary accord.   General elections in Bangladesh is less than six months away.  The political situa...

Dated 12-Jul-2013 By Dr. Subhash Kapila Bangladesh is expected to go to the polls for its General Elections with the term of the current Ninth Parliament on January 24, 2014. The present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came into power in January 2009 after Bangladesh had gone through a spell of two years (2006-2008) of a Caretaker Government. Bangladesh forthcoming General Elections are a matter of intense focus as the political turbulence commencing in January 2013 in the wake of sentencing of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami leaders to death and life imprisonment on charges of war crimes related to Bangladesh Liberation War were announced sent out conflicting portents. The Shahbagh Awakening in the wake of War Criminal Trials judgements witnessed a virtual violent struggle for Bangladesh’s national identity between the nations’ younger generation and the followers of Islamist parties combine led by the Jamaat.  It was heartening to note that Bangladesh’s Generation X vo...

Achinta Majumder from Bhola.   Hindu communities organised a protest march and meeting against Muslim thugs and their godfather who destroyed temple and assaulted priest in Lord Hardinge village of Lalmohon upazilla of Bhola district. The destruction happened on 31st May 20113.   Temple priest Sri Kiran Chandra Das alleged that same thugs looted Hindu houses and raped many after 2001 election. He demanded punishment for the perpetrators. He also alleged that by doing this looters trying to grab Hindu properties. Police arrested Riaz, Mobatak and Jasim so far.     Hindus protest against temple destruction by Muslim thugs in Bhola, Bangladesh