Bongal Kheda is the name retrospectively given to a set of murderous acts against the Hindus in undivided Assam in the late 1940s that continued into the 1960s.
Abduction of young girls from minority communities, indiscriminate rape, and conversion in Bangladesh - https://t.co/68IHgMC9nD
Property damage, ethnic policing and even instances of street violence occurred in the region. During its peak in 1960, a large number of Hindus left Assam & took shelter in West Bengal. Robin Dey, the Bengali-born creator of teenage adventure series of Dasyu Bhaskar in Assam was forced to leave Assam and settle in Kolkata. In 1959, Sukomal Purakayastha, who was later martyred.
Marichjhapi massacre refers to the forcible eviction of hundreds of Hindu Dalit refugees on Marichjhapi island in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, in 1979, and the subsequent death of some due to gunfire by police and Communist goondas, blockade & subsequent starvation, and disease.
The Goreswar massacre was the massacre of Hindus in Goreswar, Assam. During & after the independence of India movement, Bengali Hindus were ethnically cleansed in Assam. After the partition riots, the next major ethnic conflagration in Assam occurred during the Bengali language movement in 1960. The Govt of Assam decided to make Assamese the only official language in the state. Bengali people protested against this decision as it would affect their employment prospects. The Barak Valley was a Bengali dominated area and became a center of agitation. This in turn resulted in a spate of police shootings. In the Brahmaputra Valley, Assamese mobs started attacking Bengalis. On July 14, 1960 riots began in Sibsagar with the looting of Bengali shops and assaults on several Bengalis. In lower Assam intense violence occurred in 25 villages. On July 3 an Assamese mob of 15,000, armed with guns and other weapons, raided Bengali shops & houses. The whole area was ransacked. 4,019 huts & 58 houses destroyed. 9 Bengalis were killed & raped. Nearly 1,000 Bengali Hindus fled from the area during the riot.
Destruction of Ramna temple during 1971 Bangladesh war. Most of us know what Pakistani did to the hindu population of then East Pakistan. But do you know what they did to this old and revered dharmic place of hinduism there ?
Ramna Kali temple - Pakistani army began "Operation Searchlight" at 25th March 1971. The committed a genocide where most victims were young hindu men, intellectuals and academics. At 26th March 11.00 Am Pakistani army entered Ramna temple and Maa Anandamoyee Ashram. They told residents to not go anywhere. And, temple and Ashram residents beloved their word. Big mistake. Pakistani army came back on the next day. They encircled the temple and Mass Anandamoyee ashram with their supporters at night. The whole area was well lit by the searchlights of Pakistani forces to make sure no one can flee.
After entering temple area they started throwing some kind of explosives(according to some eye witnesses they were firing canons. As a result Deity and the back portion of the temple were blown away. Subsequently the whole temple was destroyed. Many people were sleeping and some woke with anxiety when Pak army entered the temple premise. Some people were still taking dinner, they started running. Womens started breaking bangles made of conch(Sankha), wiping out vermilion dots and everybody began to shout "Pakistan Zindabad" in panic. Some people went into hiding into different corners of temple. Pakistani army searched them out at the point of beyonet. Pak army made people stand in the line in front of temple. Woman and children at one line and men at a different line.
The temple priest swami Paramananda Giri told army
"These are innocent people. Don't harm them. If you people want to kill someone, kill me."
However the terrorist army made him recite "Kalema" and killed him afterwards by piercing the beyonet into his stomach and then shooting him. Subsequently many people were made to recite "Kalema" and then killed in the same way. The remaining men folks were gunned down in hail of bullets. It is learned from the testimonies of the witnesses that 80-100 people were killed at this time.The women were beaten by guns when they started screaming after seeing this horrible carnage.Many of them turned senseless.
Pakistanis heaped the dead bodies together and set them on fire with gasoline. Those who were wounded also perished in the fire. Witnesses mentioned that some women and children were burned to death in the fire. Pakistani soldiers forced them to shout "Jai Bangla" when they were shot in the mouth and killed. During the rampage The Ramna Kali temple and Anandamoyee Ashram was burning(This was narrated by the eye witnesses to the public investigation committee in Dhaka in 2000).
There was about 50 cows in the cowshed of Ashram. They were burned alive. Before returning to the base Pak army soldiers took 12 young hindu women with them(according to some witnesses the number is 14). They are still missing. Eyewitness Abdun Ali Fakir, Khadem of Shahabagh Mosque situated not far from Ramna Kali Temple, said that after the terror was started by Pakistani invading forces, every one in Ramna Kali Temple and Ma Anandamoyee Ashram was forced to say "Pakistan Jindabad" and also recite "La-illaha illa' Llah". All the men and women standing in the line uttered those words in united voice and then the shooting started.
• Kamala Roy used to live in the premises of Ramna Kali Temple and Ma Anandamoyee Ashram at that time. She said to the Commission that after the Pakistani invaders surrounded from all sides, the women, panicked and scared for their lives, wiped out the ' sindur (vermilion dot on forehead)', and removed 'sakha (bangles made from conch shell)' from their forearms. Men and women were lined up separately. Then the men were mowed down to the ground. Some of them were half dead and screaming for water. Pakistanis collected all the dead bodies along with the half dead people, throw the bamboo fences, taken from the houses,on those bodies and set them on fire. Pakistani soldiers threw the children in fire when they found these children running around and screaming in mortal fear.
• According to another eye witness Shankarlal ghosh Paramananda Giri was asked whether he is hindu or Muslim ? After he gave his religious identity, he was killed.
Eyewitness Raghubir Chauhan - " Me and my son was able to flee when the invader army set my room to fire but my wife couldn't. She died in the fire."
The deputy-editor of Daily ittefaq Ahsanullah in his testimony before the commison said, "3 days after the incident I saw heaps of burned human skeletons and about 14 rotten deofrmed human bodies. I saw another 10 bodies in the destroyed temple and Ashram premise".
Ramna Kali temple after destruction. At the end of April month that year they destroyed what remained of the temple and cut many trees in the temple areas. Pakistani army destroyed many temples across East Bengal. Important among them was Jasoreshwari(which is a Shaktipeeth, however fortunately the Vigraha was brought to WB. So, while the temple was destroyed, the Vigraha was spared), famous Manasa temple established at 1494 by poet Bijaygupta of Barisal(then known as Bakla-Chndradwip) and famous Chatteshwari of Chittagong. The 350 year old Vigraha made of wood was cut down by barbarians. The priest was shot down and the body was thrown in the middle of the road.
Ma Chatteshwari
Pakistan army killed 8 monks of Jagabandhu Math at Faridpur town. With the news of their arrival some monks fled the monastry But nine monks refused to leave the ashram. At that time the monks were singing kirtan at the prayer hall of the temple. It is said that the Pakistani soldiers mistook the chants as "Jai Bangabandhu" and the Bihari collaborators too convinced them that the monks were chanting for victory to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The Pakistani soldiers entered the prayer hall and dragged the monks to the open space in front of the temple, beneath the elephant apple tree adjacent to the temple. One monk, Nabakumar Brahmachari escaped and locked himself up in the room beneath the staircase. The remaining eight were made to stand in a line in front the Pakistani soldiers who had already taken position. According to eye witness accounts, twelve shots were fired one by one. The monks chanted "Jaya Jagatabandhu Hari" as they fell down. The soldiers and the collaborators looted valuables and cash from the ashram. On the next morning, the corpses were taken away by a Faridpur Municipality truck. On 26 April, the Pakistan army destroyed the shikhara of the temple using dynamite.
The Mahant of the Ram Thakur Ashram at Kaivalya dham was shot down and 10 ashram residents were killed. The holy banyan tree was cut down by the barbarians.
Attack on Bangladeshi hindus following babri masjid demolition :
Muslim mob attacked all over the Bangladesh, specially Dhaka, Chittagong, Noakhali . They Burnt 30+ Temples, Looted Hindu Shops,Houses, Killed Hundreds Of Hindus, Rapped Hindu women. Thousands of Bangladeshi Hindu family fled to India that time , u can find then in Assam , Tripura State now , Recently i have been to Bangalore & meet one of them . I m surprised when came to know that he was from my city. His family stays in Assam & he doing job in Bangalore.
Sadly u can find very less info regarding this in internet , surprisingly the details gone away from peoples access , few of them u find in unhcr archives , here but those r very less informative - https://t.co/432LTZQuiK
The Famous Dhakeshwari Temple and Bholanath Giri Ashram of Dhaka destroyed and burned . 5000 mod attacked Dhaka national stadium where India vs Bangladesh cricket match was being in process . Later it was cancelled. 14 temples burned in coxsbazar.
Famous temple of Chittagong Panchanan Dham and Tulsi Dham along with 3 temples were destroyed . There was a dham where a kamdhenu used to served & was worshipped, mob entered temple immediately slaughtered her in front of temple in banskhali .
The Bijon Setu massacre or Ananda Margi Monks killing was the killing and burning of 16 sadhus & a sadhvi belonging to Ananda Marga, Ballygunge, Kolkata in West Bengal, India, on 30 April 1982. Despite the attacks being carried out in broad daylight, no arrests were ever made.
The Khoirabari massacre was an ethnic massacre of an estimated 100 - 500 immigrant Hindus in the Khoirabari, Assam. 7 Feb 1983, Activists of the Assam Agitation sought to block an assembly election that day & had cut communications to the Bengali enclaves, which were perceived to be pro-election. Indigenous Assamese groups, who had held resentments toward the immigrant Bengalis, took advantage of the resulting isolation and surrounded and attacked the Bengali villages at night.
Silapathar massacre of Hindu refugee settlers from East Pakistan in Silapathar, Assam in February 1983. Around 1,000 Hindus were killed in the massacre. The Hajongs, another refugee group though not the primary target, suffered casualties.
Hajoi massacre of Hindu refugee from East Pakistan in Hajoi, Assam on July 1993.More than 100 Hindus were killed in the massacre. The incident started with a tiff between a photo shop owner & a customer. During the massacre, the Bengali Hindus were killed in very brutal manners which included, being axed to death, being shot by arrows, beheaded by swords, shot, and being hacked to death by machetes and also hacked into pieces. The Brutality of the massacre is very well recorded.
07/2003. 12 yr old Hindu girl gang-raped by members of Jamaati-e-Islami political party and left unconscious for three hours.
07/2003. "What we are seeing is the Talibanisation of Bangladesh," Maolama Abdul Awal.
Village of Fhainjana: mob of 200 fundamentalists looted 10 Christian houses, allegedly assaulting many women and children.
Kamalnagar massacre refers to the massacre of 14 unarmed Hindu villagers in Kamalnagar on 14 August 2003 by the All Tripura Tiger Force insurgents.
From 1964 to 2013, around 11.3 million Hindus left Bangladesh due to religious persecution and discrimination.
October 2016. Hindu homes and temples were attacked in Nasirnagar, Eastern Bangladesh, injuring over 100 people.
Jun '17. Hindu girl Ritu Parna Mistry, 18, kidnapped at 5:00 pm and forcefully converted to Islam. One of numerous such incidents.
June 2017. Sukhiya, a cobbler who dragged out, raped, tortured and brutally killed in Bangladesh.
Kha Maung Seik massacre by Rohingyas
On 25 August 2017, Hindu villages in a cluster known as Kha Maung Seik in the northern Maungdaw District of Rakhine State in Myanmar were attacked & 99 Bengali Hindu villagers were massacred by Muslim insurgents from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). A month later, the Myanmar Army discovered mass graves containing the corpses of 45 Hindus, most of whom were women and children.
Even Leftist amnesty usa confirmed this massacre
Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh: Over 50 Reported Hate Crimes in Mar-Apr ’18
2018 Tinsukia killings, On 1 November 2018, ULFA militants massacred 5 Hindus on the banks of Brahmaputra, Assam. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal condemned the killings.
Year 2019 Hindu torture stats from Bangladesh given by Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mahajot.
434 Hindu families displaced, 690 H families faced such situation, 160 H families got such threat, 641 families were threatened to leave the country, 397 families were forced to leave the country, 2261 H families suffered from insecurity, organized attacks nos 125, 449 temples were destroyed & put into fire, 246 vigrahas destroyed, 31 vigrahas stolen, 76 Hs kidnapped, 7 attempts of kidnapping, 42 H women raped, 18 gangraped, 6 killed after rape, 34 rape attempts, forceful conversation+ conversation attempts nos 148, 99 cases of hurting religious sentiment, 109 Hs were arrested on false case, 105 H families were put under confinement, 5 temples desecrated, 22 Hs were fed beef.
108 Hs were killed, 484 Hs injured, 79 Hindu businesses were attacked, 641 families were evicted from their home, 378 families had to leave the country, 641 families were threatened to leave the country, 448 H homes were attacked, 9507 acre Hindu owned lands were grabbed.
Instances of Hindu persecution in Bangladesh during April. 2020
(compiled by World Hindu Federation, B'desh)
1. April 04
Raihan Mir Faruk, a land robber, has occupied the ancestral property of Narayan Sarkar in Puran Mahipur Union of Mahipur Police Station in Patuakhali District.
April 06
Local land robber Ishaq Ali and his two sons Akmal Hossain and Ashraf Ali have seized 100 bighas of land belonging to 50 Hindu families in three villages of Chaugachha police station in Jessore district.
April 07
The Islamic fundamentalists vandalized the idol of a Hindu temple located in Patuakhali district.
April 08
Police have arrested a school teacher named Indrajith Hazari for the allegation of posting 'abusive' words about the Prophet Muhammad in Satkhira district.
April 09
The miscreants vandalized the idols of Sri Sri Radha Gobind and Lakshmi of Shiva temple in Kuki Kalidas village of Bogra district.
April 10
Jahidul Hawlader grabbed the ancestral property of 6 bighas in SA 717 Khatian in 104 Dewatla Mouza of Jobon Mridha in Morelganj.
April 11
Local terrorist Md Shahin Sheikh demanded 5 Lac Taka from Hindu businessman Asit Kumar Sarkar, a resident of Titukandi village in Alamdanga upazilla in Faridpur district. Later Shahin Sheikh and other 30 gangs attacked and seriously injured Asit sarker by local weapons.
April 12
On Monday morning, Ali Munshi and his sons looted the house of Sudhanshu Das of Nazirpur
village in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district and cut down valuable trees worth more
than three lac taka.
April 13
A helpless widow Basna Rani Das and her son and daughter were brutally beaten by Muslims. House and properties forcefully occupied.
April 15
Dhaneshwar Roy's daughter Pratima Rani was forcibly taken away and converted to Islam in Dimla upazilla in Nilphamari district.
April 16
Harun Mallik and his two terrorist sons carried out a surprise attack on a Hindu family in the village of Paschim Sujankathi (Mallikpur) under Agailjhara police station in Barisal district. Four Hindus were admitted to the hospital with serious injuries.
April 17
Ashtami Sarkar (14), daughter of Nimai Sarkar of Rajshahi district, was forced to committed suicide in her room due to regular harassment by Golam Mostafa and his friends.
April 18
Police have arrested Paritosh Kumar Sarkar, an innocent Hindu college student, for the allegation of obscene comments on his Facebook page about Islam in Nageshwari upazill in Kurigram district.
April 19
Police have arrested Madhu Kundu, 32, of Fakirhat in Bagerhat for posting status about the mass gathering within the time of lockdown for COVID-19 for attending the janaza of Maulana Jubayer Ahmed Ansari at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria district.
April 21
In order to expel the Hindus from the country, 30 Hindu families were attacked in Satkania by the local identified terrorist group of 60 people led by Zia Uddin Habibullah and Musa Uddin. 25 Hindu people including children were seriously injured.
April 22
The criminals vandalized the temple and attacked several Hindu houses at Akkelpur municipal area of Joypurhat district for obstructing gambling at the Parghati temple.
April 23
Fundamentalists killed Subrata Mandal (30 years old) at Dakop upazila in Khulna district.
April 24
The identified terrorists attacked a Hindu family at Mongla in Bagerhat district with the intention of evicting them from their homes. Six members of the family, including a pregnant woman, were injured. The locals rescued them and admitted them to the hospital.
April 25
Local Terrorist group led by UP member Tariqul Islam attacked and vandalized the house of Rabidas attacked and vandalized to grab his property at Sariyakandi in Bogra district.
April 26
The miscreants vandalized the idol and setting fire to two temples in Laxmipur municipal town.
April 27
Local identified extremists led by Babul and his two sons beat Narendra Moktar to grab his properties at Begumganj upazila in Noakhali district.
April 28
Fundamentalists attacked the Durga Temple and its adjoining Bankali Temple at Maheshail Bazar under Ishania Union No. 2 of Bochaganj Upazila in Dinajpur and vandalized the Shiva and Kali idols of two temples.
April 29
Bikash Chandra Ghosh of Sadar police station in Satkhira district was attacked by 35 to 40 Muslim men with the intention of seizing 5 bighas of property. When Soleiman Gazi tried to kill Bikash Ghosh with a gun, he and his family had to leave their house.
Hindu temple vandalized on May 13 2020 -https://t.co/wmhEfnYLle
May 18, '20: Hindus threatened/killed by Islamists when they refuse to let go of their ancestral land.
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