West Bengal, February 27, 2016: The team of Bangladesh Minority Watch has come to India to raise issues of minorities in Bangladesh. First the team met with the West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party President Dilip Ghosh and apprised him of all the problems that minorities such as Hindus, Christians and Chakmas face back at home […]
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Bangladesh: Hindu boy murdered for his faith
Dhaka, February 23, 2016: Bangladesh which is mourning the assassination of a Hindu priest by the Islamic State’s foot soldiers is shocked by the latest report that a 10-year old Hindu boy has been murdered, allegedly for his religion. The name of the deceased boy is Sajib Majumdar and he used to live in the […]
Bangladesh: Hindu priest beheaded, IS gaining ground?
Dhaka, February 22, 2016: Bangladesh is turning violent by the day for its minority Hindu community. Bangladesh Minority Watch has stated that the Bangladesh government does not believe that the latest murder of a Hindu priest, which also injured two other (devotees) people, is the work of the Islamic State nor is this murder a […]
Bangladesh: Land grabbers attack Hindu house
Dhaka, February 18, 2016: Minority Hindus found themselves under attack, yet again, in Bangladesh. Today (18th February 2016), houses of the Hindu minorities were attacked on at about 11 a.m near the bus stand within the Thakurgaon Sadar of Thakurgaon district in Bangladesh. The incident came to light via human rights watchdog Bangladesh Minority Watch […]
Bangladesh: Perpetrators Attack Kali Temple
Dhaka, February 18, 2016: Violence against the Hindu community and its right to freedom of religion seems to have become a major issue in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) has reported that a Hindu temple has been attacked by the extremists in the country who also demolished Hindu God idols and desecrated the temple on 14 February 2016 […]
Bangladesh: Hindu cremation ground eyed by Islamists leads to attack on the minority
Chittagong, 17 February, 2016: Perpetrators belonging to the majority community tried to forcefully seize the cremation ground belonging to the Hindu community on Sunday 14th February 2016 and also injured 10 women and children from the minority community who were unable to escape the assault. The incident happened at the Kumira Union of Sitakundo Sub […]
Bangladesh: Hindu man’s beheading highlights minority plight
Dhaka, February 12, 2016: Tarun Dutta (45) a Hindu businessman was brutally beheaded on 8th February 2016 at Golapbag Bazar within Govindagonj Upazila of Gaibandha District in Bangladesh. His beheaded body and head were recovered from a ditch at Bardhankuti area and the man had a hardware business. The beheading is eerily similar to what happens […]
Bangladesh: Sexual assault on child angers Hindus
Dhaka, 11 February 2016: Hindu community is distressed over the rising number of cases of sexual assaults on minority children in Bangladesh. In the latest case highlighted by Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW), a minority child aged 10 was sexually assaulted by one Md.Ahsan Habib who is an NGO activist. The case is from Dinajpur District and […]
Bangladesh: Hindu men and women assaulted
Dhaka, 11 February 2016: An investigative report filed by Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) says that on 23 January 2016 another assault took place on the Hindu minority in Bangladesh. The reason for the assault reported is that the Hindu fishermen were fishing which angered the perpetrators and they launched attacks on the community. They also beat […]
Bangladesh: Hindu ceremony attacked
Dhaka, 7th February 2016: Bangladesh is under the grip of severe intolerance as reports after reports pour in, which prove that minorities have little or no place in the country. Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) has reported that perpetrators from majority Muslim community attacked Hindu funeral ceremony (Shardha) with a view to grab land belonging to the minority […]