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The Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council of Bangladesh has announced that it will hold sit-ins and mass demonstrations across the country next Saturday (November 7).
The organization will target minorities in Lalmonirhat and Comilla on charges of insulting religion, set fire, protest the cancellation of student scholarships and demand the formation of a National Minority Commission.
Advocate Rana Dasgupta, the council’s general secretary, announced the program at a press conference held in the S Rahman Hall of the Chittagong Press Club on Tuesday (November 3).
Rana Dasgupta said the program will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday at the New Market junction in Chittagong and at the Shahbagh junction in Dhaka. He said: “By capitalizing on the French incident, the communal forces are implementing a planned conspiracy against the religious and ethnic minorities of Bangladesh. The backs of the country’s minorities are nailed to the wall. So the show has been announced as soon as I get back from there.
In the seven months from March to September of this year, 16 people died in communal attacks, 10 were tried for murder, 11 threatened with death, 30 raped and tortured, and six were tried for indecent exposure. Three people have committed suicide, 23 have been kidnapped, 26 idols have been vandalized and three are missing.
The press conference also said that 23 temples have been attacked, vandalized and burned, seven people have been forcibly converted, 73 attempts have been made to occupy homes and crematoria, 26 have been completely occupied, 60 families have been evicted from villages. and 34 people have been deported. Done.
In addition, various propaganda targeting religious and ethnic minorities is being carried out. Through this, grassroots communalism has become more entrenched. But the government-administration has been mysteriously silent about it. We are apprehensive and concerned about this general situation, ”said Rana Dasgupta.
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