The message from the global community, including a top UN official, was inspired by a nearly week-long run of communal violence targeting minority Hindus during the recently concluded Durga Puja celebrations.
The United States has condemned recent reports Attack on minority Hindu community in Bangladesh.
“Freedom of religion or belief is a human right. Every person around the world, regardless of their religious affiliation or belief, should feel safe and supported to celebrate important holidays,” a State Department spokesperson said.
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“The State Department condemns the recent reports of attacks on the Hindu community in Bangladesh,” the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, Pranesh Halder, a member of the Bangladeshi Hindu community, in a statement urged the department to “ensure that there is no further harm to the distressed Hindus of Bangladesh”.
He urged US-based watchdog groups and media houses to highlight the seriousness of the violence in Bangladesh.
On Sunday, Bangladeshi Hindu diaspora organized a protest in front of that country’s embassy here to protest the massive violence caused by destruction of Hindu homes and temples during Durga Puja festival in Bangladesh.
“It is particularly horrifying that the last remaining Hindus in Noakhali are being attacked in this way, 75 years after Islamists demanded the creation of Pakistan, killed 12,000 Hindus in October 1946 and forcibly converted 50,000 to Islam.” Done,” said Utsav Chakraborty, executive director. Hindupact, a US-based Hindu advocacy group.
The Hindupact said indigenous Hindus continue to be the target of organized hatred and discrimination in Bangladesh, a country where the minority population has declined from 28 percent in the 1940s to nine percent now.
“This recent wave of violence confirms the threat that indigenous Hindus continue to face. Fifty years after about 2.8 million of them were killed and another 10 million of them became destitute and refugees by the Pakistani army in 1971, during Bangladesh’s freedom struggle, Hindus are being targeted for their faith, It said.
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