Bangladesh

Bagerhat, southwest Bangladesh. Family attacked. May 13, 2021 On 13-05-2021,a group of 30-40 people led by Md (Mohammad) Nasir attacked a Hindu house with native weapons in Kuraltala Madhyapara village of Hijla union of Chitalmari upazila (subdistrict) of Bagerhat,Bangladesh. 3 Hindu people were injured & the injured were admitted to Chitalmari Sadar Hospital     [...]

Hindus and religious minorities in Bangladesh continue to be targeted and persecuted, as they have been since 1971 when the Pakistani army systematically murdered, raped and drove from their homes millions of Bengali Hindus because of their religion and ethnicity. [...]

People in the Hindu communities were subject to forced conversion to IslamThere were several near-death experiences during the nine long months of the Liberation War. It was an unsettling, suffocating feeling: As if we were all waiting to die. [...]

Thousands of supporters of a conservative Islamist group have protested in Bangladesh against a statue of the goddess of justice erected outside the supreme court.The protest in the capital, Dhaka, demanded its removal.The demonstrators say the figure, a variation on the Greek goddess Themis but in a sari, goes against Islam. [...]

At least 98 people of Hindu community were reportedly killed and 357 others were attacked physically till December 29 this year, Bangladesh Jatiyo Hindu Mohajote (BJHM) claimed today. [...]

The incident came to light after people of Mymensinghorohi village in Netrokona sadar upazila of Pabna district found the doors of Sharifpur Kali temple in Aminpur open this morning. Upon entering the temple premises, the residents noticed smashed bits and pieces of the temple architecture and three idols. Three broken idols – one of deity Kali [...]

Public hype over the Facebook post, which was fuelled by aggressive comments by local leaders, led to the violent attacks on Hindus It has been a month since the attacks on the Hindu community in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district, but police have yet to learn the exact motive behind the post of the controversial image [...]

Minority communities’ 3,307 houses and businesses and 1,104 temples and idols were damaged in the country in last four years, show media and rights groups’ reports. Rights groups blamed influential land grabbers for the attacks on houses, businesses, community and family temples and even thatched dwellings of the minority groups, both religious and ethnic. The [...]

Miscreants vandalised and looted at least 10 Hindu temples in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar this afternoon along with hundreds of houses of the Hindu community. [...]

At least seven persons were injured following an attack on a Hindu temple, allegedly over a land dispute, in Sylhet city this afternoon. [...]