In a bid to handle the continuing assaults on Hindus and different minorities, Bangladesh’s interim chief Muhammad Yunus has known as for a gathering with Hindu college students and youth on Monday. The interim authorities stated the dialogue will give attention to resolving the present disaster and making certain the safety of the Hindu neighborhood.
Minority communities in Bangladesh have reportedly confronted not less than 205 incidents of assaults throughout 52 districts for the reason that fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led authorities on August 5.
“Assaults on spiritual minorities in some locations have been noticed with nice concern,” the interim authorities stated in its first official assertion since cupboard members took workplace on Sunday.
Amid rising considerations, minority teams have been demanding the implementation of a minority safety legislation to safeguard their rights. A gaggle of Hindu college students has ready an eight-point record of calls for to current to Yunus.
The calls for embrace establishing of a fast-track courtroom for quick trials in circumstances of assaults on Hindus, pressing enactment of a minority safety legislation, upgrading the Hindu Non secular Welfare Belief to the standing of a belief, modernisation of the Pali Training Board, declaration of a five-day vacation throughout Sharadiya Durga Puja and institution of a Ministry of Minority Affairs.
Muhammad Yunus beforehand condemned assaults on minority communitiescalling them “atrocious” and urged younger individuals to guard Hindu, Christian and Buddhist households.
