The hidden plight of religious minorities in Bangladesh
Peter | 23.03.2006 16:34 | Analysis | World
The minorities of Bangladesh have witnessed large-scale violence, cultural genocide and discrimination and bias at the hands of all the successive governments in perpetual order.
The loss of 30 million people, 2,5 million acres of land, hundreds of homicides, vandalisation of more than 25.000 units of minority property, scores of organised gang rapes, state sponsored violence against women and children of the minority community have been witnessed in the state of Bangladesh.
Under the process of ethnic extermination of minorities from Bangladesh, global Islamic funds and forces have been encouraged to take their roots in Bangladesh over the last one decade. A galaxy of 64000 madrassas in Bangladesh are funded officially by the State of Bangladesh. A large chunk of jihadi fundamentalists from various orthodox Islamic states have been successful in establishing a terrorist regime in Bangladesh. It is due to this development that modern weaponry and sophisticated arms are used at various places during mass violence. Threatening, coercion and kidnappings are witnessed by the members of the minority community day in and day out. If this kind of a situation is not brought under control forthwith, there is a possibility of mass exodus.
The involvement of trained terrorists from Bangladeshi madrassas, run by fundamentalist organizations, in the attacks on American Centre in Calcutta and Kuta Beach Bali, speaks volumes about the growth of Islamic terrorism corresponding with the current pan-Islamic movement. In Taliban camps mainly three languages were spoken: Arabic, Urdu and Bangali, as pointed out in the CNN interview with John Walker, the American Taliban. In a festival mass which was attended by a large number of people, including the cabinet ministers of Bangladesh in Dhaka, the cleric declared jihad against America and wished destruction to both America and the President Bush.
The sorry state of affairs caused due to the design of Muslim precedence in the Statecraft, the Islamization plan, apartheid and Islamic terrorism have dwindled the population of the minorities in Bangladesh from 30 percent in 1947 to 10 percent in 2002. The figures in regard to the Muslim majority population of Bangladesh speak that the population of the members of the Muslim majority community has risen from 57 percent in 1947 to 89 percent in 2002. This fall and rise in different population groups represent negative demographic change against the minority community of Bangladesh. We appeal to the global opinion makers, human rights groups, people seated in positions of authority, the State of Netherlands, European Union and the United Nations to pay their kind attention to the concerns of the minorities of Bangladesh as soon as possible.
Global Human Rights Defence is an international human rights organization with the aim of promoting human rights for those areas that have been severely affected by human rights violations, but whereto relatively insufficient attention has been given from the perspective of NGO's, governments and media. The organisation is to be coordinated from its headquarters in The Hague- International city of Peace. Furthermore this organization at this very moment is represented in Afghanistan, Belgium, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Germany, Guyana, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, the United States of America and Zimbabwe.
Under the process of ethnic extermination of minorities from Bangladesh, global Islamic funds and forces have been encouraged to take their roots in Bangladesh over the last one decade. A galaxy of 64000 madrassas in Bangladesh are funded officially by the State of Bangladesh. A large chunk of jihadi fundamentalists from various orthodox Islamic states have been successful in establishing a terrorist regime in Bangladesh. It is due to this development that modern weaponry and sophisticated arms are used at various places during mass violence. Threatening, coercion and kidnappings are witnessed by the members of the minority community day in and day out. If this kind of a situation is not brought under control forthwith, there is a possibility of mass exodus.
The involvement of trained terrorists from Bangladeshi madrassas, run by fundamentalist organizations, in the attacks on American Centre in Calcutta and Kuta Beach Bali, speaks volumes about the growth of Islamic terrorism corresponding with the current pan-Islamic movement. In Taliban camps mainly three languages were spoken: Arabic, Urdu and Bangali, as pointed out in the CNN interview with John Walker, the American Taliban. In a festival mass which was attended by a large number of people, including the cabinet ministers of Bangladesh in Dhaka, the cleric declared jihad against America and wished destruction to both America and the President Bush.
The sorry state of affairs caused due to the design of Muslim precedence in the Statecraft, the Islamization plan, apartheid and Islamic terrorism have dwindled the population of the minorities in Bangladesh from 30 percent in 1947 to 10 percent in 2002. The figures in regard to the Muslim majority population of Bangladesh speak that the population of the members of the Muslim majority community has risen from 57 percent in 1947 to 89 percent in 2002. This fall and rise in different population groups represent negative demographic change against the minority community of Bangladesh. We appeal to the global opinion makers, human rights groups, people seated in positions of authority, the State of Netherlands, European Union and the United Nations to pay their kind attention to the concerns of the minorities of Bangladesh as soon as possible.
Global Human Rights Defence is an international human rights organization with the aim of promoting human rights for those areas that have been severely affected by human rights violations, but whereto relatively insufficient attention has been given from the perspective of NGO's, governments and media. The organisation is to be coordinated from its headquarters in The Hague- International city of Peace. Furthermore this organization at this very moment is represented in Afghanistan, Belgium, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Germany, Guyana, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, the United States of America and Zimbabwe.
Peter
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