DHAKA, Aug 5 : Bangladesh’s Awami League party has criticized the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus for a “brutal and systematic campaign of minority persecution” carried out over the past year. The party claims that over 2,442 attacks on minorities were documented under Yunus’ regime, and that these incidents are ignored, enabled, or supported by the state.
The party questions whether Bangladesh is still the same country or has become a “Taliban state in disguise.”
The party highlights the atrocities against Hindu minorities across several districts, including beatings, death threats, gang-raped women, and the destruction of temples. The party claims that Qawmi madrasas teach hate, army officers mock Hindu chants, and police whisper genocide.
The party also claims that Bangladesh has become a “graveyard for its minorities” and that unrest last year has evolved into “organised religious cleansing.” The Yunus government’s rule has marked the rise of a cruel, communal state where being a minority is a crime and religious identity evokes terror.
Over the past year, minorities have been subjected to planned and continuous terror, with fanatics attacking temples, raped women, abducted girls, and burning homes, all while the state remains silent. (IANS)
