Ethnic Cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus

[hussain0216]

India has CAA so now it's ok for them to all get out to go to India

 

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^We will be writing Bangladesh's obituary if they send any new Hindu or their ethnic minorities to India by persecuting them.

 

[Buddhistforlife]

You must have heard accounts of immigrant Hindu Bangladeshi families selling their gold ornaments in Tripura, WB and Assam to buy baby food and clothings amongst other things. Are they to be bracketed with the miyas who are the real economic immigrants. What about our Chakma, Hajong and other Twiprasa brothers? Were they economic immigrants also?

I have told you numerous times that chakmas and hajongs were made refugees by the Pakistani administration back in the 1960s when the kaptai dam was built. Most of the chakma refugees residing in India came in India during that period although the cht conflict also forced some chakmas into India.

You must have heard accounts of immigrant Hindu Bangladeshi families selling their gold ornaments in Tripura, WB and Assam to buy baby food and clothings amongst other things. Are they to be bracketed with the miyas who are the real economic immigrants. What about our Chakma, Hajong and other Twiprasa brothers? Were they economic immigrants also?

I don't know about Bangladeshi hindus who are living in North East India so I can't tell. I am talking about Bangladeshi hindus who go to Kolkata and other parts of India. Most Bangladeshi hindus usually go to Kolkata and Delhi that because of economic purposes although there are people who moved due to persecution and I'm not denying that.

 

[namefield_empty]

I have told you numerous times that chakmas and hajongs were made refugees by the Pakistani administration back in the 1960s when the kaptai dam was built. Most of the chakma refugees residing in India came in India during that period although the cht conflict also forced some chakmas into India.

I know that better than anyone else, being from NE. My point obviously was that why would you club the Chakma and Hindu Bangladeshis, the victims of ethnic and religious persecution, with that of the miyas who were economic opportunists. Why would otherwise a Bangladeshi miya come to Assam, it is not as if muslims are persecuting muslims in BD.

 

[hussain0216]

^We will be writing Bangladesh's obituary if they send any new Hindu or their ethnic minorities to India by persecuting them.

You have CAA to accept them

 

[namefield_empty]

Most Bangladeshi hindus usually go to Kolkata and Delhi

No, both Hindus and Muslims from BD visit India for tourism, treatment etc. I don't know about WB and others but in my state all the Hindu Bangladeshis that found themselves out of NRC had valid refugee identity cards. Hope you get the drift..

You have CAA to accept them

No, CAA is to hasten the process of naturalization for the refugees of religious persecution that came to India prior to 2014. And fyi, those refugees are already living in India for decades, as rightly pointed out by @Buddhistforlife . He knows more about CAA than those protesting it in India.

Most of the chakma refugees residing in India came in India during that period although the cht conflict also forced some chakmas into India.

One more question though i know you will evade it. Do you deny that Chakmas are being persecuted by the Bangladeshi government to this very day. Systematically targetting their vibrant leaders by your armed forces(mysterious killings and disappearances that are consigned to corner page of your dailies), encroachment of their legal properties, violence against their womenfolk and non fulfillment of a political promise made more than 2 decades back.

 

[Buddhistforlife]

I know that better than anyone else, being from NE. My point obviously was that why would you club the Chakma and Hindu Bangladeshis, the victims of ethnic and religious persecution, with that of the miyas who were economic opportunists. Why would otherwise a Bangladeshi miya come to Assam, it is not as if muslims are persecuting muslims in BD.

Listen you have to take 2 periods into consideration. First before 1971 and after 1971. It may be true that before 1971 there were Muslims from Bangladesh who went to NE India however I doubt after 1971 there were any mass migration.

Bangladeshi muslims, both hindus and muslims generally go to West Bengal, I never heard anyone willing to go to NE India to settle permanently but it could have happened many years back from now.

Also it is not necessary that every Bengali is from Bangladesh. West Bengali muslims also migrated into NE India in bulk.

The situation too complex my friend as many events occured since 1947. The partition in 1947, the war of 1971, the creation of Bangladesh etc.

No, both Hindus and Muslims from BD visit India for tourism, treatment etc. I don't know about WB and others but in my state all the Hindu Bangladeshis that found themselves out of NRC had valid refugee identity cards. Hope you get the drift..


No, CAA is to hasten the process of naturalization for the refugees of religious persecution that came to India prior to 2014. And fyi, those refugees are already living in India for decades, as rightly pointed out by @Buddhistforlife . He knows more about CAA than those protesting it in India.


One more question though i know you will evade it. Do you deny that Chakmas are being persecuted by the Bangladeshi government to this very day. Systematically targetting their vibrant leaders by your armed forces(mysterious killings and disappearances that are consigned to corner page of your dailies), encroachment of their legal properties, violence against their womenfolk and non fulfillment of a political promise made more than 2 decades back.

Persecution is a wrong term. I would say there have been instances of communal violence. Persecution means they are living a hellish life which is not true. They have jobs, education, freedom to travel etc.

Yes I agree that encroachment of land is a problem here and I hope the government will do more for the chakma community to save their land.

The last point is a Big No. Rape and violence against women is pretty common in the rural parts of Bangladesh as enforcement is poor here. Chakma women are not targeted specifically. Out of the hundreds of rape cases filed, only handful of them involves chakma women.

 

[hussain0216]

No, CAA is to hasten the process of naturalization for the refugees of religious persecution that came to India prior to 2014. And fyi, those refugees are already living in India for decades, as rightly pointed out by @Buddhistforlife . He knows more about CAA than those protesting it in India.

It doesn't really matter what CAA is

It's being seen as a hindutva law for Hindu citizenship and I foresee it being a conduit for increased migration into India by hindus

If it is also a cause of consternation between Bongla and India then it will add impetus

 

[Buddhistforlife]

No, both Hindus and Muslims from BD visit India for tourism, treatment etc. I don't know about WB and others but in my state all the Hindu Bangladeshis that found themselves out of NRC had valid refugee identity cards. Hope you get the drift..


No, CAA is to hasten the process of naturalization for the refugees of religious persecution that came to India prior to 2014. And fyi, those refugees are already living in India for decades, as rightly pointed out by @Buddhistforlife . He knows more about CAA than those protesting it in India.


One more question though i know you will evade it. Do you deny that Chakmas are being persecuted by the Bangladeshi government to this very day. Systematically targetting their vibrant leaders by your armed forces(mysterious killings and disappearances that are consigned to corner page of your dailies), encroachment of their legal properties, violence against their womenfolk and non fulfillment of a political promise made more than 2 decades back.

Just last week a DU student was raped. She was a Bengali muslim and not a chakma.

 

[namefield_empty]

Bangladeshi muslims, both hindus and muslims generally go to West Bengal, I never heard anyone willing to go to NE India to settle permanently but it could have happened many years back from now.

C'mon friend, truckloads of illegal miya Bangladeshis are caught in NE crossing the border or in railway stations and bus terminuses. Papers and news portals of NE are full of such incidences, so commonplace that i have now stopped sharing them here. Why is it that Hindus are never caught crossing the border illegally. Simple logic says that's because they are not economic immigrants like the miyas. You are right in saying that the Hindus mainly came to NE India in times of widespread religious strife, which has since abated though isolated incidents still occur. Maybe, Hindus are still coming to WB but i can't comment on that.

It may be true that before 1971 there were Muslims from Bangladesh who went to NE India however I doubt after 1971 there were any mass migration.

Mass migration of the miyas happened till the early 2000s, though the bulk of them came in the 90s and before.

West Bengali muslims also migrated into NE India in bulk.

Assam is surrounded by Sylhet, Mymensingh and Rangpur. I doubt the muslims of WB came here to bolster their numbers. Moreover, the miyas of Assam speak mainly Mymensinghia and Sylheti.

The situation too complex my friend

Most certainly!

It's being seen as a hindutva law for Hindu citizenship and I foresee it being a conduit for increased migration into India by hindus

You can see it in any way you deem fit, your opinion as a Pakistani scant matters to us. Those protesting in India will gradually come to their senses. Misinformation and propaganda doesn't last long in this day and age.

 

[hussain0216]

You can see it in any way you deem fit, your opinion as a Pakistani scant matters to us. Those protesting in India will gradually come to their senses. Misinformation and propaganda doesn't last long in this day and age.

Things are going well

 

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Ethnic Cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus

In a globalised world where illegal Rohingya refugees are revered and garlanded, the innocent Hindus of Bangladesh are met with step-motherly inhumanly treatment. Large international organisations like United Nations have not uttered a word in favour of millions of Hindus subjected to brutality and hate crimes.

Yogendra Singh
Demography (Persecution & Proselytisation) | 08-01-2020


Imagine a family living in a large beautiful ancestral home. The house, originally belonging to the family, was the seat of a magnificent civilisation where happiness, intellectualism and progressiveness were promulgated smoothly along with the traditionalism. Then came, as a consequence of series of disastrous misadventures, some vindictive, baleful and rancorous ‘invaders’ gunged with duplicitous ideals and deleterious dogmas. They – after initially nestling themselves in the adjacent house – gradually started expanding their reach, swallowing their vicinity, creating havoc and destruction throughout, succouring darkness; eventually dimming the light of culture. Rape, mass murder, destruction and forceful conversions converts the magnanimous aroma of the house into a tenebrous reflection of the dark realm.

One day they partition the house into two separate houses – one for themselves. When they have no one to pour their liquid of destruction upon, they threaten the life of original inhabitants left in their part of house. Time turns its wheels and atrocities on ‘minorities’ in the separate house – the original inhabitants – doesn’t stop. Inimical tides turn into annihilating tsunami. Neighbouring house members jumps into the tsunami to save the others, and with their mighty strength saves the one part of the other house from another part’s inflicted destruction. The fight ends and as a result new house is charted from the other house, which itself was created just few years prior. But the plight of original inhabitants – still the minority in the new other house – sees no improvement. Atrocities continues but in a more veiled and silent way, this time by the authorities of the newly created house. Culprit changes but the victim doesn’t. Years later the original inhabitants are mere walking dead.

This is pretty much the story of Bangladeshi Hindus. They’ve been subject to brutal atrocities and destruction committed by the majority of Bangladesh which mounts a condition of ethnic cleansing. The recent mass addition to the list was made in 2017. In the year 2017 alone, according to the Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mojahote, an umbrella organisation representing Hindus within Bangladesh, 107 Bangladeshi Hindu civilians were murdered, 31 Hindu victims disappeared, at least 25 Hindu women and girls were raped, 23 Hindus were forcefully converted and 235 Hindu temples and statues within Bangladesh were desecrated. The same report also claimed that 782 Bangladeshi Hindus were forced to flee to India due to persecution by the Bangladeshi government and radical Islamist groups. This means that 6,474 different atrocities were committed against the Hindu community in Bangladesh in 2017. Which was even higher at 11,335 in 2016. One example of that was seen in Sovandadi village of Patiya, Chittagong where houses of 20 to 22 Hindu families were burned to the ground.

And these are all just the ‘reported ones’. Shipan Kumar Basu, the head of the Hindu Struggle Committee, believes that many atrocities within Bangladesh are unreported: “A lot of Hindu homes were burned in Chittagong Moheshkhali and there were other crimes that occurred against the minorities but they were not published in any newspaper.” The problem does not end there. The powerful establishment of the state of Bangladesh functions, directly and indirectly, either in support of the culprits or in ignorance of the conflict. The atrocities, most of the time, is the subject of no value to the Bangladesh authorities. And the culprits in fact, sometimes, gets a helping hands from the establishment.

A Hindu being beaten by Muslims in a mosque in Bangladesh. He was captured outside the mosque while going home. After Friday prayers were over, the Muslims came out and grabbed the first Hindu they could. Mr. Vimal Patak a Bangladeshi born Hindu was beaten to death with sticks as the Muslim mullas (priests) chanted “kill the Kafir!” (non-muslim). With folded hands he begged for his life and died a brutal death. Source – Hindu Jagruti Samiti


Following Bangladesh’s War of Independence, almost 10 million Hindus were displaced, thus making it difficult for the authorities to establish direct ownership of property within specified legal timeframes and this reality showed the real face of Bangladesh authorities. The establishment, specifically the Awami League government confiscated 1.05 million acres of the Hindu land through Vested Property Act, 1972 and benefitted from the turmoil, showing absolutely no care for the Hindus. The authorities have time and again proved they hold no sympathy and sense of responsibility towards the Hindus.

These all are not one off incidents, the various attempts to ethnically cleans Hindus in Bangladesh dates back years. The ugliest turn in the time was, of course, the 1971 War of Liberation.

The 1971 Persecution
In 1971, throughout the 9 month long persecution carried out by Pakistan’s Army in the then East Pakistan, the primary target was the Hindu community. The Muslim Pakistani Army unleashed a series of ‘holocaust’ like deleterious vindictive persecution, abduction, destruction, mass killing and raping of, predominantly, Hindus with an evil objective of quashing Hindu culture and religion in their ‘territory’.

The horror was captured in the red and cold words of Sunday Times journalist Anthony Mascarenhas, who reported at that time, “I was getting my first glimpse at the stain of blood which has spread over the otherwise verdant land of East Bengal. First, it was the massacre of non-Bengalis in a savage outburst of Bengali hatred. Now, it is a massacre carried out by the West Pakistan Army. Hindus, hunted from village to village and door to door, were shot off-hand after a cursory short-arm inspection showed they were uncircumcised. I have seen truckloads of human targets and those who had the humanity to help them hauled off under the cover of darkness and curfews. I have witnessed the brutality of kill and burn missions after the army who cleared off the rebels pursued pogroms in the towns and villages. Women were raped or had their breasts torn out with specifically fashioned knives. Children did not escape the horror. The lucky ones were killed with their parents but many thousands of others go through what remains of them with eyes gouged out and limbs amputated.”

Hindus were subjected to extreme brutality and inhumanity waged on them by the Pakistan Armed forces which was covered in the blood soaked veil of jihad, away from any moral summoning. Hindus of East Pakistan suffered one of the worst of genocides in history. The year was the darkest in the already dark century for them. 2.5 million to 3 million Hindus were slaughtered including women and children. Absolute barbarity and lava of intense hatred was poured over them from the bucket of Jihad. And many, fortunates, fled the blood field to protect themselves and their family. As Hindus were the prime targets of army, no wonder 80% of refugees fleeing East Pakistan were Hindus numbering around 8 – 10 million. The destruction was planned and systematically executed.

Reminiscent of the Jewish holocaust, Hindu homes and shops were marked by a yellow “H” to guide the marauding army to their targets. Sydney H. Schanberg, The New York Times correspondent to Dhaka in 1971, gave the first hand account of the brutal massacre of Hindus in Bangladesh. Schanberg reported “Hardest hit have been members of the Hindu community who have been robbed of their lands and shops, systematically slaughtered, and in some places, painted with yellow patches marked ‘H’. All of this has been officially sanctioned, ordered and implemented under martial law from Islamabad.”

Women were subjected to unimaginable misery and they became victim, for just being born into a different faith, to baleful deleteriousness ‘medieval’ brutality. Schanberg shedding light on the disturbing plight of Hindu women at the hands of Muslim Army wrote “The Pakistan army and the Razakars did not stop at simply massacring Hindus. They also took to raping Bengali women.

During nine months in 1971, over 200,000 Bengali women and girls were raped. Many were taken as sex slaves and raped multiple times by the Pakistani army.”

Source: Sujit Das
Insult to injury was Bharatiya ‘secular’ media’s systematic blackout of the massacre. Never they made for the way for realism in reporting and never they reported what foreign media did with grit. Majority of the Bharatiya populace were unaware of that planned destruction of their kith and kin.

The 1971 genocide was a construct and a manifestation of the idea that led to series of minor jihadi incidents affecting the innocent Hindus ever since the 1947 partition. 1971 was neither the start nor the end.

The Unnatural Change of Demographics
The pattern of degradation and destruction of Hindu community, demography, culture and religion as a whole shows crystallinity about systematic-ness of it. Right from the 1951, we see a rapid and consistent decline in Hindu population in Bangladesh (East Pakistan 1947-1971).

Before partition Hindus in the then East Bengal comprised 30-31% of the total population. Partition led to huge influx of Hindus in Bharat and out-flux of Muslims in East Pakistan. Migration reduced the number of Hindus in East Pakistan to about 22% of the total population as per the 1951 survey. Decades after partition, when the sands were settled, the religious demography of East Pakistan was supposed to be stable. But it didn’t settle, instead the Hindus were consistently diminishing and reducing in numbers.

With the same Socio-economic conditions, ethnicity, landscape, fertility and mortality rate, stable and continues religious demography was something naturally expected. But despite similar conditions, the minorities in Bangladesh, unnaturally, kept on vanishing. “Due to unabated persecution, intimidation, and forcible conversion to Islam, the Hindu-Minority population kept on dwindling” wrote Rahul Gupta for Hindu Jagruti Samiti.

Year Islam (Population in %) Hinduism (Population in %)
1951 78.90% 22.00%
1961 80.40% 18.50%
1971 85.50% 13.50%
1981 86.60% 12.10%
1991 88.30% 10.50%
2001 89.70% 9.20%
2011 89.10% 10.70%
Source – Wikipedia

A study of government data from 1941-2011 shows clear signs of diminishing Hindu population and unnatural change in demographics. In 1961, Hindu population decreased to 18.50% of total population. As a result of genocide, it further sliced to 13.50% in 1971. Eventually decreasing to 10.70% according to latest census of 2011. But at the same time the Muslim population kept on increasing and expanding from 78.90% in 1951 to 89.10% by 2011. The effects of forceful change in demographics touched the vicinal West Bengal also, where Hindu population between 1951 and 1991 decreased by 4.1% while the Muslim population increased by 3.6%.

The continuous hate crimes, prosecution, killings, forceful conversions, mass destruction, religious desecration and slow demographical vanishing of Hindu community are crystalline and pellucid indications of a horrific ethnic cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus. But the world is still either unaware or intentionally silent on this systematic ethnic cleansing. In a globalised world where illegal Rohingya refugees are revered and garlanded with, the innocent Hindus of Bangladesh are met with step-motherly inhumanly treatment. Large international organisations like United Nations never uttered a word in favour of millions of Hindus subjected to this brutality and hate crimes.

Each global media has betrayed the ethics of journalism and essential values of humanity by ignoring such a huge case of ongoing ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh. India, after years of tears and cry, has finally acknowledged their condition by formally enacting a law fast tracking their naturalisation in India, something which Hindus from Bangladesh – and Pakistan and Afghanistan – direly needed.

But despite every assertion of Citizenship Amendment Act (2019) matching the global gold standards of humanitarianism, many – predominantly Muslims – in India are up in arms against it. The act is being despised solemnly on the elision of Muslims as refugees along with Hindu, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians. An opportunity to welcome the suffered ones has fell afoul to the squinted, murky and somewhat morbid interpretations of secularism. While majority of Indians have opened up their arms to refuge innocent minorities from 3 Islamic States; some have added salt to their wounds by protesting against the act.

India only likes Bangladeshi hidus when they are dead.