With the state of affairs nonetheless tense in areas alongside the India-Bangladesh border after Sheikh Hasina resigned as Bangladesh’s Prime Minister final week, the nation’s army was maintaining a detailed eye on police personnel holed up in police stations.
Amid pupil protests in opposition to Sheikh Hasina, a number of police stations throughout Bangladesh, together with the capital Dhaka, had been vandalized, looted and set on fireplace, forcing a number of law enforcement officials to flee and go into hiding.
Though some law enforcement officials are reporting for obligation in some locations the place violence has subsided, most of them stay in hiding as a result of threats of additional assaults.
In Meharpur, near the India-Bangladesh border, the Bangladeshi military was guarding a police station and law enforcement officials had been hiding inside. Tensions have risen within the border district as a number of homes belonging to Hindus had been burnt down through the riots.
Earlier, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was sworn in as a senior adviser to the interim authorities, had referred to as on law enforcement officials to return to their duties. Regardless of his name, most of them stay in hiding.
The protests, principally by college students, started in Bangladesh in June over a controversial job quota system that widened into an anti-government motion in opposition to Sheikh Hasina after the army cracked down on the demonstrations.
On August 5, Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India, marking the tip of her 15-year rule, as pupil protests turned violent. After her departure from Dhaka, a number of homes and properties belonging to Hindus had been looted, vandalized and set on fireplace.
Minority communities within the Muslim-majority nation have reportedly confronted a minimum of 205 incidents of assaults in 52 districts for the reason that fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led authorities.
In the meantime, Muhammad Yunus has referred to as for a gathering with Hindu college students and neighborhood members on Monday to debate the problems raised by them associated to focused assaults on the neighborhood.
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