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 […]
Tag: Minority persecution
Bangladesh Minority Watch team in India, meets WB BJP President
West Bengal, February 25th, 2016: The Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW), which is working to highlight the plight of minorities like Hindus, Christians and the Chakmas in the country, met with Dilip Ghosh, who is the President of Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal. The meeting took place in Kolkata on 23rd February 2016 at his office. […]
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 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: Awami League workers and police personnel attack human rights lawyer
Dhaka, February 1, 2016: Rising extremism is threatening minorities in Bangladesh and even the law enforcement agencies have been infiltrated by such elements in the South Asian nation. Advocate Rabindra Ghosh of Bangladesh Minority watch in a Facebook post has revealed that Md. Moshiudowla Reza, Assistant Superintendent of Police(Hathazari Circle) Chittagong, physically assaulted him and […]