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The Bangladeshi Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council said on Tuesday that hundreds of Hindu homes, businesses, and temples have been vandalized since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced out of office by protesters over the weekend.a 15-year run as prime minister on Monday by resigning and fleeing the country while protesters stormed her residence in the national capital of Dhaka. She has taken refuge in Hindu-majority India.
Hasina hails from a prominent Muslim family but was friendly to India, where she lived during the 1970s. She spent years exiled in India after her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — the “father” and first president of independent Bangladesh — was assassinated along with most of his family in 1975.Hasina as a “pro-democracy icon who became an autocrat.” Bangladesh flourished economically under her administration, in no small part due to good relations with India.
less in turn. She waged a bitter feud with rival Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party , the duo earning the sobriquet of “battling begums” – begum being a term for high-ranking Muslim women. Khaleda was actually the first female prime minister of Bangladesh, havingThe two begums have taken turns tossing each other in jail over the years, and when Khaleda’s second term as prime minister was terminated by a military coup in 2006, the junta threw both of them in prison.
“The communal atrocities erupted hours before she resigned. Although there is no killing, there is injury. Houses and businesses of minorities, especially Hindus, as well as temples, have been targeted, looted, damaged,” BHBCUC general secretary Rana Dasgupta said. People participate in a protest march against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government, demanding justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 3, 2024.
Sarkar said some of his family’s properties have been spared, apparently because they were not on the revenge lists drafted by Muslim groups in their neighborhood, but dozens of other homes have been attacked and Hindu shops looted.
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