This Eid it was raining in Dhaka but people went ahead with the sacrifice and later the streets turned as rain and blood of the sacrificial animals got mixed creating what most vegetarians or those from the outside world would describe as a scene equivalent to a scene that was enough to give them a […]
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Hindu traders attacked and looted in Chittagong
Chittagong is one of the areas where Bangladeshi forces can be seen in every nook and corner and that is why news such as this, is indeed bad for the nation. In another attack on Hindu community, the perpetrators physically assaulted the minority Hindus who earn their living through minor trading in Chittagong. They looted […]
Hindu boy who was stripped by radicals to know his religion still awaits justice
Minority Hindu boy Mrinmoy Majumder (23) still awaits justice. The Hindu boy was a student of the Jahangir Nagar University of Bangladesh when he was attacked and the attackers stripped him naked to check whether he was circumcised or not. His circumcision status would have meant that Mrinmoy was a Muslim and he could have […]
Hindu man beheaded in Bangladesh, body found from drain
On 2nd September 2016 a beheaded body was found by the police in a drain at the Hajipara area, Bogra district, Bangladesh. The murdered man was identified as the 35-year old Haridas who was a humble man and was a barber by profession. Bangladesh Minority Watch has said that so far no one has been […]
150-year-old Temple desecrated in Bangladesh
Unknown perpetrators attacked a Hindu Temple in Nithok Shialkhowa village in Kaliganj upazila of Bangladesh on 1st of September 2016. The Temple has been identified as the Sachchidananda Sebashram Temple and the desecration came to light after a worshipper named Sharat Chandra Roy, 58, spotted the iron decorative structure atop the Temple torn by someone […]
ISKCON Hindu temple attacked for disturbing Jumma prayers (Video)
Sylhet, Bangladesh was tense due to an Islamist attack on the ISKCON Hindu Temple. The Temple stands at the Kajal Shah area of Sylhet. The attackers used bricks, glass and also stones to launch an attack on the pretext that the ISKCON Hindu Temple disturbed their Jumma or Friday prayer. Eibela reported that this devastation […]
Hindu caretaker of Temple brutally attacked with knives, fighting for his life
Chitta Ranjan Addaya (57) a Hindu caretaker of the Raghunathpur Kali Mandir, located at Madhabdi police station of Narsingdi District, was brutally attacked by assailants with the attention to murder him on the spot on 23.08.2016 at about 07.45 p.m. The victim has been transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as his condition became critical. […]
‘2.3 million Hindus sacrificed their lives for making Bangladesh’
Mr. Sukriti Mondal is the Editor of www.eibela.com, an online daily of Bangladesh which is published in two languages, Bangla and English. The website, one of the best in Asia, has brought to light many problems which the minority communities face in the neighboring South Asian nation politically and religiously. Here is an in-depth interview […]