NO more excuses, we want to delivery of election year promises this time around.
Violence should NOT be tolerated no matter who it comes from.
Shalom!
From: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Re: [RHYTHM-GROUP] Hindus under attack: Jamat-Shibir following same tactic as Pakistanin ocuupation army used in 1971
From: jayanta rudra <jkrudr@yahoo.com>
Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: [RHYTHM-GROUP] Hindus under attack: Jamat-Shibir following same tactic as Pakistanin ocuupation army used in 1971
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Date: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 11:22 AM
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Subject: [RHYTHM-GROUP] Hindus under attack: Jamat-Shibir following same tactic as Pakistanin ocuupation army used in 1971
Jamaat-Shibir men attacked two Hindu dominated localities at Jaldi union of Banshkhali upazila and set ablaze a Buddhist temple at Satkania upazila of the district yesterday.
Rioters of Jamaat-e-Islami and student body Islamic Chhatra Shibir attacked a temple and business establishments belonging to Hindus at Bhelkobazar in Sundarganj upazila of the district yesterday afternoon.
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Re: [mukto-mona] Re: [RHYTHM-GROUP] Hindus under attack: Jamat-Shibir following same tactic as Pakistanin ocuupation army used in 1971
This is a good time for our government to step up to it's responsibility. Hindu citizens of Bangladesh have EQUAL rights to their opinions and it should be protected along with all other peaceful opinions. Making political statements is the job of opposition. The sitting administration needs to go further than that. They have to ensure innocents citizens are NOT suffering for political situation in BD.
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I am glad to see that - USA State Department has expressed their grave concern on the targeted attacks on the religious minority communities in Bangladesh.
At this point, members of the religious minority communities around the world should contact their local representatives (Parliamentarians/Senators/Congressmen) to express concern about the safety and security of loved ones in Bangladesh.
Let's inform international communities that - minorities are canaries in the coal mines to indicate hallmarks of the international Islamist movement; attacks on them in Bangladesh for a national issue only reveal that - Bangladesh is influenced by international Islamist movement. International awareness is very much essential now. Let's do our part.
Thanks.
Jiten Roy
Set up a date and call all who can come! Let's go to Kennedy Memorial! Let everybody know the atrocities emanating from islam.
From: subimal chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com>
Lashing a déjà vu of 1971, Jamaat-Shibir fanatics yesterday wrecked havoc on the Hindu community across the country.
They damaged at least six temples, including one of Buddhists, and torched houses and business establishments of Hindu people in Noakhali, Gaibandha, Chittagong, Rangpur, Sylhet, Chapainawabganj and elsewhere in the country.
In Rajganj of Noakhali, Jamaat-Shibir men set ablaze a temple and eight houses of the Hindu community.
They also traded bullets with law enforcers in Datterhat under Sadar Police Station and in Rajganj under Begumganj Police Station, leaving two people killed. The deceased were identified as Khokon, 17, a pickup van assistant, and Liton (28), a fish monger, reports our Noakhali correspondent.
The Jamaat-Shibir men also looted a jewellery shop owned by one Biplob Sarkar at Chandraganj Purbo Bazar in Begumganj.
Witnesses and police said hours after top Jamaat leaders Delawar Hossain Sayedee had been sentenced to death, the marauding activists equipped with firearms, iron rods and kerosene set fire to Harishiva temple in Rajganj market area at 3:30pm.
"They returned an hour later and this time we had no choice but to flee the area. They set eight houses on fire with kerosene," schoolteacher Shankar Chandra, who lost his house in the attack, told The Daily Star over the phone.
Some 50 Hindu people used to live in the houses burnt down, he said, adding that all but a few people had managed to escape to safety. Those left behind had been beaten up and kicked out of their houses by the Jamaat-Shibir attackers.
"We ran for our lives leaving everything behind. I was only seven during the Liberation War in 1971, but it didn't feel this insecure even then," said Shankar Chandra.
During the attack, the Jamaat-Shibir men also threatened newsmen to keep from covering the incident and took away cameras of photojournalists. They also forcefully picked up television crew Mohtasim Billah Sabuj. Locals later rescued Sabuj and took him to safety.
Assistant Police Superintendent (ASP) of Begumganj circle Mahbub Alam told The Daily Star that informed of the arson, police and firefighters had reached Rajganj around 5:00pm. Police had a hard time containing the violence in the area, as Jamaat-Shibir men had outnumbered the law enforcers.
When police tried to bring the situation under control, an exchange of gunshots between the attackers and law enforcers took place. Fish monger Liton died in the incident, said the ASP.
Almost at the same time, another group of Jamaat-Shibir men clashed and traded gunfire with police at Datterhat area leaving Khokon bullet-hit. He was declared dead when taken to Sadar hospital.
CHITTAGONG
They set fire to houses at Dhopapara and Mohajonpara of the union and attacked people with sticks, iron rods and sharp weapons, said Inspector Md Shahjahan of Banshkhali Police Station.
Two people had been critically wounded in the attack, said the inspector, adding that the injured had been undergoing treatment at upazila health complex.
Jamaat-Shibir men also set ablaze three shops belonging to Hindu people at Kaliaish union of Satkania upazila, Additional Superintendent (South) Md Iltutmish of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.
GAIBANDHA
Later in the evening, they swooped on and vandalised some houses in Shovaganj union.
Meanwhile, Hindu community leaders last night told The Daily Star that vandalism, arson and looting took place in temples, houses and business establishments of Hindu people in Sylhet, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Laxmipur and Chapainawabganj.
According to them, attackers had vandalised the central Kali temple at Mithapukur upazila in Rangpur and another at Kansat in Chapainawabganj.
"We are observing the situation. So far we have heard they had attacked and vandalised temples, houses and business establishments belonged to Hindu people at least in 10 districts," said Nirmal Chatterjee, secretary general of Dhaka Mahanagar Puja Committee.
"We have informed law enforcers of the situation and sought security to the Hindu community," he added.
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