Bangla zealots go after Hindus |
Bangladesh’s Hindu population is down to 8% from about 14% in 1971.Targeted attacks on minorities have gone up after al-Qaida set up base.Bangladeshi Hindus faced attacks in 1992, after the Babri demolition. 70-year-old Ananda Gopal Ganguly was hacked to death in a small village in southwestern Bangladesh on June 7. Two days later, another Hindu religious worker Nityananda Panday (60) was killed in almost the same manner early morning in front of a mental hospital. Thus, Bangladesh is caught in a spiral of violence targeted at religious minorities, following a spate of systemic attacks on atheist bloggers, secular activists and intellectuals that began last year. The priest`s beheadings, however, has triggered fresh fear psychosis and whisper talk about the arrival of the Islamic State (ISIS) and migration plans among the already dwindling Hindu minority in Bangladesh. Kajal Debnath who heads Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Unity Council (HBCUC) eported from Dhaka that this persecution is not the same as earlier. It is a new phenomenon. Now, they are slaughtering ordinary landless poor Hindus with no social or economic standing and the message is entirely different.
|
|
|
|