Rampant Genocide of Minorities in Fundamentalist and Islamic Bangladesh!

Last updated on: November 22, 2006 at 12:46 am by Desh Kapoor

Rampant Genocide of Minorities in Fundamentalist and Islamic Bangladesh! 2006-11-22T00:46:48-06:00 Desh Kapoor

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Genocide of the minorities is rampant in Bangladesh! The rise of Islamic fundamentalism is visible in every sphere.. but the West will still support the four party fundamentalist coalition!

Journalist and activist Shahriar Kabir cites the rise of the militant organizations as the reason.

“Today, there are more than a 100 such militant organisations. On August 17, as a show of strength, they exploded 500 bombs across the nation. On that day, not district of Bangladesh was spared. Though the bombs were all low intensity and the body was not high, it showed how well organised the outfits are,” he says.

There are only a few ways in which the current situation can be changed, Kabir says.

Urging the West to interfere, he says the United States must alter course and shun its double standards.

“On the one hand, the West asks (Pakistan President) General Pervez Musharraf to take action against fundamentalists in that country. On the other, it supports the four-party fundamentalist coalition in Bangladesh.The United States and other nations must ask Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to stop funding these fundamentalist organizations,” he observes.

Kabir also warns that if the international community delays its action, things may be too late.

“These outfits are spreading far and fast. They have vast regional and global networks. They have a presence in Kashmir and even other parts of India. They are present not just in Pakistan, but also in Afghanistan. It is very dangerous,” he concludes.

The other details of the continuing genocide is given below:

A Buddhist monk, a Christian, a Muslim and a Hindu from various parts of Bangladesh came together in India to highlight the plight of the minorities in the Islamic country.

In Mumbai to attend a conference on the persecution of minorities in Bangladesh and Kashmir on Monday, the human rights activists painted a scary picture about the plight of the minorities.

Torture, rape and murder are almost everyday occurrences for the minorities. Apart from violence, the other ways that the establishment and other militant organizations make life tough for the minorities are by cutting off opportunities in the public sector and by denying voting rights.

“For some minority people, getting voting rights is impossible. Some who have voting rights are not allowed to vote even if they muster the courage to go to the polling booths. Voters are threatened inside the polling booth, ballot boxes disappear the day before counting, numbers change from nowhere on the day of the results. Anything can happen,” says Rosaline Costa, a human rights activist.

Backing their claims, the activists gave proof of the atrocities committed by the militant organisations, showing photographs of victims and testimonies of unspeakable violence and torture.

Speaking about the injustice meted out to the indigenous people of the Bangladesh’s largely Buddhist Chittagong Hill Tracts, Dr Prajnalankar Bhikku said: “The security forces and the state mechanism have virtually wiped the indigenous people out of the hills of Chittagong. They have committed serious human rights violations and have changed the very social fabric of the Chittagong hill tracts”

Alleging that militant organisations were involved in a large number of rapes and murders in the region, Bhikku said: “A silent genocide and ethnic cleansing is taking place in the hills of Bangladesh without the knowledge of the outside world.”

He said though Bangladesh is constitutionally a Republic, it recognises only Islam as State religion and only Bangla as the State language.

“The Republic is practically an institution of one ethnic group, one language and one religion. It treats all non-Muslims minority communities as either Bengali Muslims or infidels,” he said.

About the plight of other minorities, Aroma Dutta, who runs a non-government organisation for the betterment of the rural populations, says: “The rise of extremism is evident. Studies have indicated that in the past five years, under the present rule, rape has not only increased, it has almost become an epidemic. Islamic militant organisations have extended their tentacles to the remotest parts isolated areas.”

Agreeing with Aroma’s observation, Costa says that since the present government took over, minorities had gone through hell.

“The ethnic cleansing is out in the open. There are forced conversions. Extortion from the minorities is on the rise. They are harassed by the banks,” she says.

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