A coalition spanning Hindu and diverse faith communities has launched a high-stakes campaign against the surge in anti-Hindu aggression in Bangladesh. Election tensions have amplified assaults, spurring demands for global enforcement of protections.
HinduPACT’s Hindus Advancing Human Rights Initiative (HAHRI) spearheads the effort, with a letter endorsed by 125+ signatories from 15 countries. It unmasks a sustained assault: slayings, threats, blasphemy-framed persecutions, and mass displacements.
Rahul Sur, HAHRI leader, framed it starkly: ‘As indigenous Bangladeshis, Hindus claim UN convention safeguards for their existence and heritage. Reality delivers impunity-driven catastrophe, far from sporadic unrest.’
Key horrors: Deepu Chandra Das’s 2024 public slaying on blasphemy lies, viral video igniting fury; waves of temple vandalism, home invasions.
Post-August 2024 upheaval, 2,673 strikes hit minorities by November’s end. Hindu share crashed from 22% (1951) to <7%, hemorrhaging 230,000 annually – branded demographic extermination.
Ajay Shah of HinduPACT decried: 'Numbers narrate nightmare. Selective rights defense undermines democracy; unchecked violence reveals governance and international lapses.'
Targeted pleas: US fact-finders, trade reprisals, refugee aid, UN mission audits. EU tariffs, probes. UN rebukes, probes.
Mobilization thrives: 25+ US rallies, thousands-strong UN petition. 'This fusion of activism signals broad insistence on uniform rights,' Sur said.
History records UN alarms, US hearings, bilateral pushes by India-America – now converging on imperative intervention to stem Bangladesh's minority meltdown.