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Following the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024, attacks began on the homes, businesses, and places of worship of the Hindu community in Bangladesh. [1] The Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council reported that from August 4 to August 20, a total of 2,010 incidents (including 69 temples) of attacks on Hindus took place across the country within this 16-day period.
Reports of attacks on temples, houses, shops of minorities, looting of belongings, and murder were documented in at least a dozen districts of Bangladesh mostly in the southern area, including Comilla, Chandpur, Noakhali, Chittagong, Bandarban, Cox's Bazar, Narshingdi and Gazipur.
Shibir Controlled politics in Chittagong from the dorm of Chittagong College where it was believed the murder was planned. [1] [6] IHS Jane's Global Terrorism and Insurgency Attack Index placed Shibir third on the list of non-state armed group in 2013. [7]
When false claims about attacks on Hindus went viral online, some Muslim protesters decided to guard Hindu temples. “It’s our responsibility to protect them,” said Moinul, who stood watch ...
It is suspected the attack was caused by internal conflicts between rival Chakma factions. This is the deadliest such incident involving the indigenous tribal Chakma people since the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997. [31] [32]
Attacks on Hindu minorities have been the work of extremists supported by the Jamaat and Bangladesh National Party (BNP). After the Judge's decision to give the death sentence to Delwar Hossain was released, the Jamaat and BNP burst into riots against governments, as well as attacking minorities and local police.
The 2012 Ramu violence refers to a series of attacks on Buddhist monasteries, shrines, and houses of Buddhist inhabitants in Ramu Upazila [1] in Cox's Bazar District [2] in Bangladesh by local mobs on the midnight past 29 September 2012. The mobs destroyed 12 Buddhist temples and monasteries and 50 houses in reaction to a tagging of an image ...
Kalpana Datta. Kalpana Datta (27 July 1913 – 8 February 1995), also Kalpana Joshi, was an Indian independence movement activist and a member of the armed independence movement led by Surya Sen, which carried out the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930. [1] Later she joined the Communist Party of India and married Puran Chand Joshi, the general ...