Bangladesh: Compelled resignation of 49 Hindu academics, has oppression of minorities elevated?

Dhaka: The state of affairs in Bangladesh is turning into more and more troublesome for minority communities, particularly Hindus, after the autumn of the Sheikh Hasina-led authorities on August 5. Not less than 49 academics from the nation’s minority communities have been pressured to resign from their posts for the reason that fall of the federal government.

In accordance with media studies, some have additionally confronted bodily assaults. Nevertheless, 19 of them had been later reinstated. The Every day Star newspaper quoted Sajib Sarkar, coordinator of the Bangladesh Chhatra Oikya Parishad, as saying that in this era non secular and ethnic minorities have confronted assaults, looting, assaults on girls, vandalism of temples, arson on properties and companies and murders.

Ethnic minorities on track

Allow us to inform you that the state of affairs of minorities in Bangladesh worsened after 76-year-old former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled to India attributable to huge pupil protests towards the job quota system. In the meantime, pupil protests rapidly turned violent, concentrating on non secular and ethnic minorities, together with Hindus, Buddhists and Christians.

On August 18, about 50 college students stormed the principal’s workplace at Azimpur Authorities Women’ College and Faculty and demanded that she and two different academics resign. “Earlier than August 18, they by no means requested for my resignation. That morning, they stormed my workplace and humiliated me,” Barua informed The Every day Star.