December 10, 2023



Seven dead after violence erupts during Hindu festival in Bangladesh

Destructive common brutality has broken out in Bangladesh after charges of the despoiling of an Islamic blessed book prompted many Hindu sanctuaries being assaulted and police starting to shoot at a group. Something like seven individuals kicked the bucket in the aggravations.

The public authority conveyed paramilitary soldiers to 22 locale after strict pressures and savagery broke out in the city of Cumilla on Wednesday, bringing about the passings of four Muslims after police terminated into swarms.

On Friday and Saturday, further mutual brutality ejected in the capital, Dhaka, just as in the southern town of Begumganj. One Muslim and two Hindus kicked the bucket in these occurrences, one from cut injuries.

The difficulty was started by recordings and charges that spread across web-based media that a Qur’an, the Muslim sacred book, had been set on the knee of a sculpture of the Hindu god Hanuman, in a sanctuary set up for the Hindu blessed celebration of Durga Puja.After the video circulated around the web on Facebook recently, crowds of in excess of 500 individuals accumulated in Cumilla and adjoining regions over the supposed irreverence. Around 10 Hindu sanctuaries and altars were assaulted and vandalized by the groups, who tossed stones and crushed sculptures of the Hindu divine beings.

In Cumilla, police shot teargas and discharged on the groups. Handfuls were harmed, including a few cops.

The counter Hindu brutality proceeded into Friday and Saturday. In excess of 80 uncommon places of worship set up for the Durga Puja celebration were assaulted, with around 150 Hindus harmed and two killed.

On Friday the PM, Sheik Hasina, guaranteed serious activity accordingly. “The episodes in Cumilla are by and large completely examined,” said Hasina. “No one will be saved. It doesn’t make any difference which religion they have a place with. They will be pursued down and rebuffed.”

Md Faridul Haque Khan, the state serve for strict undertakings, said the occurrence including the Qur’an would be researched yet added that collective congruity ought to be ensured and encouraged individuals not to go rogue.

Obaidul Quader, a clergyman with the decision Awami League government, visited a Hindu altar in the fallout of the viciousness. He said “enthusiast components” were answerable for the assaults on the Hindu celebration, adding that the public authority would “not let them continue with their abhorrent plan”.

The Bangladesh Hindu Unity Council said in a tweet that it “couldn’t distribute” what had occurred in the course of recent hours, yet expressed that “the Hindus of Bangladesh saw the genuine essences of certain individuals. We don’t have the foggiest idea what will occur later on. In any case, the Hindus of Bangladesh will always remember Durga Puja in 2021.”

Hindu strict pioneers affirmed the assaults were essential for a scheme to assault their local area. Hindus make up 10% of the Muslim-larger part country.

In August, four Hindu sanctuaries were assaulted in the country’s Khulna area and in March, during a visit by the Indian PM, Narendra Modi, hardline Islamist bunches assaulted Hindu holy places.

The underlying difficulty provoked shock in adjoining Hindu-larger part India.

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