Bangladesh

Ms. Rupa Rani Pal (13) Minority Hindu School Girl kidnapped on 12.03.14 from Rupgonj Upazila within Narayangonj district. Police took no steps for rescue of the victim till our intervention on 04.04.2014 BDMW investigating. Source: The Daily Janakantho dated 18.03.2014) Rupgonj P.S. Case No. 20 dated 17.03.2014 under section 7/30 of Women and Children Repression [...]

Bangladesh : At least six Hindu people were injured as some unidentified criminals attacked their religious programme at Ramchandrapur village in the district’s Palashbari upazila on Wednesday night. Locals said Hindus organised the three-day programme in a temple of the village from Wednesday evening. Some 10 to 12 masked attackers swooped on those attending the [...]

Nature of crime: Abduction for forceful conversion. Name of the victim: Ms. Moni Saha (F) Age of the victim    : 17 years 3 monhths. Name of the father:  Sushil Chandra Saha Name of the mother: Ms.Jharna Rani Saha Religion of the Victim : Hindu Permanent address of the victim:  Kalihati Upazila, Munshi Para, District –Tangail, [...]

Nature of crime : Rape of children.Name of the victim:  Ms. Mila Bakta (8) Name of the father:  Mr. Milon Bakta Name of the mother: Ms. Mukta Bakta,Religion of the victim: HinduDate of incident : 27.02.2014 at about 3.45 p.m.Place of occurrence: Village-Mandra, P.O. Radhagonj, P.S. Kotalipara,District-Gopalgonj.Name of the perpetrator: Sohag Sheikh (20) son of [...]

Hundreds of students of different schools of Rangpur formed a human chain in Lalbagh area of the city yesterday condemning the recent attacks on Hindu communities. They formed the human chain under the banner of “Osamprodaik Chetonay Bishwasi”. Different social, cultural, and political organisations and civilians expressed solidarity with the students. The speakers particularly condemned [...]

GUWAHATI: The BJP today questioned the “silence” of the Centre as well as the Assam government over attacks on Hindus during recent elections in Bangladesh and said giving Indian citizenship to Hindu migrants should be considered favourably. “In the recent polls, Hindus were attacked in Bangladesh. Why Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Tarun [...]

Bangladeshis living in the UK have strongly protested the attacks on the Hindu minority in the country following the January 5 general election and demanded compensation to restore the livelihood of the affected people. Under the banner of the Campaign for the Protection of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh (CPRMB), they voiced their condemnation through a [...]

The Rise of attacks against Hindus and Buddhists by Islamic Fundamentalists in Bangladesh [...]

The party of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of the nation,, now led by his daughter Sheikh Hasina, and its allies won close to 80 per cent of the seats in December 2008. “If one is looking for a single sentence to sum up the significance of the 9th parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, it should [...]

BNP-Jamaat activists vandalised and looted 130 houses and torched 10 others at a Hindu village in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore tonight hours after the end of voting in 10th parliamentary polls. The mayhem started as two men — Biswanath Sarkar and Shyamol Sarkar — of Chapatola Malopara village, went to the Chapatola Aliya Madrasa polling [...]