Majority of assaults on minorities in Bangladesh ‘not communally motivated’ however ‘political in nature’: Police report
Majority of the assaults on minorities in Bangladesh that befell since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster had been ‘not communally motivated — slightly, they had been political in nature’, in accordance with a police report.
This got here after the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council reported that minorities in Bangladesh confronted 1,769 incidents of communal violence and vandalism, the Each day Star reported.
Of those reported incidents of communal violence towards minorities in Bangladesh since August 4, 2024, police have registered 62 circumstances and arrested at the very least 35 people based mostly on investigation findings, in accordance with the report.
The police report indicated that the majority assaults on minorities in Bangladesh had been politically pushed slightly than communally motivated, with investigations confirming 1,234 incidents as political and solely 20 as communal. Furthermore, the report mentioned that at the very least 161 claims of assaults had been false, whereas the Council reported that 1,452 incidents—82.8% of the overall—occurred on August 5, 2024, the day Sheikh Hasina was ousted from energy, the each day star reported.
The report mentioned that 53 circumstances has been filed and 65 arrests have been made. General, since August 4, there have been 115 registered complaints of communal assaults, ensuing within the arrest of at the very least 100 people.
The interim authorities reaffirmed its zero-tolerance stance on communal violence.
“The federal government has additionally introduced that it could compensate the victims. The interim authorities attaches the very best significance to the institution of human rights no matter creed, color, ethnicity, intercourse or gender,” mentioned chief adviser’s deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder.
Following the collapse of Hasina authorities, India at many events has expressed issues over the safety of minorities, significantly Hindus, who had been broadly seen as supporters of Hasina’s Awami League.
The arrest of Iskcon priest Chinmoy Krishna Das over a sedition cost, which stemmed from the hoisting of a saffron flag above Bangladesh’s nationwide flag throughout a rally, additional raised apprehensions of discrimination towards minorities within the South Asian nation, attracting condemnation from India.
Bangladesh interim authorities has dismissed such claims with authorities chief adviser Muhammad Yunus claiming that violence towards minorities had occurred “solely in some circumstances” and most complaints had been “utterly exaggerated”.
