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😢😢 ohhhh so sad
Throughout the streets of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, hundreds of students are gathering and protesting condemning the religious violence taking place all over the country.
Several Hindu religious sites were attacked especially during the Durga Puja time, and idols were also vandalized.
The Hindus are a minority in Bangladesh, and only make up around 10 percent of the total country’s population.
Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that these attacks were aimed at destroying the communal harmony in the country.
The present unrest in the country the worst in Bangladesh since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party came to power there in 2009. It poses a challenge to her party, which is seen as the more secular one of the two political groups that have alternated power in Bangladesh for most of its independent history.
The United Nations has also condemned the recent attacks on the minority Hindu community of the country.
“Recent attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, fuelled by hate speech on social media, are against the values of the Constitution and need to stop. We call upon the Government to ensure protection of minorities and an impartial probe. We call upon all to join hands to strengthen inclusive tolerant Bangladesh,” said Mia Seppo, UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh.
The minority community of Bangladesh because of the recent attacks feels threatened. Over the last fifty years nearly 2.8 million of Hindu population has been killed and another 10 million of them turned destitute and made to become refugees by the Pakistan Army in 1971, during the independence struggle of Bangladesh.
The minorities all across the world continue to be targeted for their faith!