HE NEWS DESK DHAKA || 15th January, 2012 :: A big protest and a huge human chain were conducted by the minority Bangladshi Hindus today on 15th January, 2012 on…
The Muslim Fundamentalists attacked destructed and arsoned more than thirty temples and Hindu shops and houses in Nadirhat-Hathazari Upajila in Chittagong, BD on 9-10 Feb. 10 arrested for temple attacks…
New Delhi, February 12: Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami activists vandalised several Hindu temples in the Hathazari area of Chittagong in Bangladesh on Thursday and Friday, forcing the law enforcement authorities to impose…
In an interview to Pravasi Today, human rights activist DR. RICHARD BENKIN speaks about the state of the Hindu community in Bangladesh and much more What are the basic human…
RICHARD L BENKIN Why this silence on organised anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh? Reports began trickling out of Bangladesh this spring about an anti-Hindu violence in the heart of its capital…
RICHARD L BENKIN Bangladesh’s Hindu population is dying. That is not opinion; it is a fact. At the time of India’s partition (1947), they were just under one in three…
An American Congressman has slammed the alleged ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan and said that Hindus have been discriminated much more than any other ethnic group…
The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has released its first annual report on the status of Hindu human rights in Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Entitled…
At the time of Partition in 1947, the Hindu population, in what is now Bangladesh, was about 31%.4 By 1961, Hindus comprised 19% of the population. By 1974, the Hindu…
Bangladesh was created after the India-Pakistan War of 1971, a conflict—elaborated in this report—that was preceded by the massacre of an estimated two million East Pakistani citizens and the ethnic…