The bamboo fencing of a 200 year old Shiva temple belonging to a minority Hindu family of was destroyed by land grabbers in Pirojpur district’s Dighirjan village in the Barisal division in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Darpan reported.
In the video, a man in a blue t-shirt can be seen destroying the fence with a stick. A Hindu man can be heard saying “Viewers, see how Hindus are being persecuted here. We are staying here for ages but they are now destroying our fence. Look at the law and order situation in the country under the Awami League government”. In the middle, another man starts vandalising the property inspired by the blue t-shirt man’s actions.
Dipten Majumder, the owner of the land, is the principal of the local Shaheed Janani College. He is also the Vice-President of Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council. The land of a 200-year-old Shiva temple that belongs to an aristocratic minority Hindu family (10%) and 11% of the family land was trespassed and vandalized by influential land grabbers.
It was reported that Tehsildar Mohammed Shahjahan Sheikh, Mohammed Hedayet Sheikh, and Mohammed Kamrul Sheikh destroyed the bamboo fence to illegally occupy the land.
Despite Majumder’s efforts to stop, the landgrabbers went about destroying the fence. They even went on to abuse him and the members of his family, the report said.
Non-muslim minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan are religiously persecuted on a daily basis. Here is a list of atrocities committed on them just in the month of May 2020.
The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 was was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019 to fastrack the process of obtaining Indian citizenship to the religiously persecuted communities in these countries who entered India on/before December 31, 2015.