In southern part of Bangladesh, police have arrested 11 people over the vandalizing and looting of four Hindu temples and several Hindu shops. A Muslim mob armed with homemade weapons attacked the temples and shops in Shiali village in Khulna district last Saturday. The attack came after an altercation over the singing of Hindu religious songs by women on the previous night on their way to a Hindu crematorium, which allegedly enraged a cleric of a local mosque. A local Hindu leader filed a case against 25 named and 150-200 unnamed persons accusing them of the attacks. Rights activists, lawyers, university teachers, former judges and leaders of minority communities decried the violence as shameful and demanded exemplary punishment. There have been similar attacks on religious minorities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. In 2012, radical Muslims attacked and destroyed Buddhist temples and houses in Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong districts. In 2016 and 2021, Islamic hardliners attacked Hindu temples and houses in Brahmanbaria and Sunamganj districts.
Minorities an easy target in Asia – UCA News
Minorities an easy target in Asia – UCA News
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