Amid reports of atrocities against minorities and the arrests of three Hindu monks in Bangladesh, the student leaders now in the government have doubled down on their anti-India stand. Nahid Islam, the information adviser to the caretaker government, has invoked two-Indias, and accused the “ruling elite” in India of playing divisive politics. After a meeting…
Amid a spate of attacks on Hindus and temples after the Friday prayers in Bangladesh, Dhaka-based media outlets gloated over a survey by the Voice of America on minorities in the country. The headlines projected that minority groups in Bangladesh “felt safer under the interim government” of Muhammad Yunus. However, facts on the ground, and…
A report analysing the actions and missteps of Bangladesh’s interim government has exposed Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus-led regime, as it noted that “religious and ethnic minorities, and marginalised communities”, became the “victims of violence” during the first 100 days of the army-backed regime. The report by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), the Bangladesh branch of the…