The Hindu Genocide in Bangladesh Amidst Global Disinformation and Denials

An evil so demonic and unimaginable has been unleashed on those who have only looked for unity in all that underlines this existence.

You see, it is easy to believe in something and use that fanaticism to create armies.

Profit is not made nor power asserted with the dissolution of one's self in the beauty of a rose. That can only be done by creating customized flowers that are raised and straightened by poison.

Hindus, like the Pagans and the Gnostics of the past, carry the seed of holistic spiritual practices. They do not want power. They do not want the heavens or the pleasures that stem from it for they are fleeting.

They look for the dissolution of their temporary existence into the eternal whole.

That needs a sensitivity that is vulnerable.

In that vulnerability lies their entire wisdom. And their destruction.

Art, real art, cannot kill. Or profit. What profits is hardly art.

What has been unleashed on the Hindus in their land of origin by those who have hated a Hindu's sensitive way of living is by far the darkest chapter in humanity.

Millions were killed by the Jihadis over the last hundreds of years, but what has been done in the last 100 years is beyond description.

Its barbarism, its scale and the utter ruthlessness is unparalleled in human history.

Hitler killed 6 million Jews over 12 years (1933-45). Churchill killed roughly 4 million Indians, mostly Hindus, in 8 months (March to October 1943). What Churchill did to Indians in 8 months, Hitler did to Jews in 8 years!

Yet, one is a villain (rightly so) and the other is a hero.

Today, we share the details. They are very tough to go through - much tougher to piece together and express though.

But imperative to remember.

For the evil continues.

With the blessings of those who sell justice, equality and the rest of it all.

That is the most egregious part of this betrayal and a genocide unmatched in its ferocity and denial.

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The Chants of the Burned Devotees

Chants of "Jai Maa Kali" were loud and strong. They slowly faded off. The dying, being burned alive in their own temple were calling out loud in their devotion for one last time before the fire engulfed them.

The Ramna Kali Mandir stood for centuries consecrated by the enlightened and kept alive by the devotion who had kept their heritage alive.

Its ancient walls, echoing the chants and prayers of generations, bore witness to the rhythms of life.

The celebrations, the sorrows, the quiet moments of faith.

This 700-year-old temple was more than a structure; it was the heart of a community, a place where Hindu families gathered under its sacred roof to find solace and strength.

But on the night of March 28, 1971, devils came in and ripped everything off.

The air that once resonated with the soothing hum of prayers was shattered by the crackle of gunfire and the anguished screams of the innocent. Under the shadow of Operation Searchlight, a campaign as cold and calculated as it was brutal, the Pakistani Army descended upon the Ramna Kali Mandir with merciless intent. What followed was not merely a massacre — it was a deliberate attempt to annihilate a people, their culture, their history.

Over 250 men, women, and children, who had lived around the temple, were hunted down and executed. Mercilessly.

The temple, a refuge for the devout, became a fiery tomb for over 100 worshippers who sought its sanctuary. The flames consumed not just the wooden beams and stone walls but the very hopes and identities of those who had placed their trust in the divine protection of this sacred space.

The priest of the temple, a custodian of its spiritual legacy, was bound and burned alive at the altar—a chilling act of desecration that seemed crafted to break the spirit of a community. The smell of charred flesh mingled with the acrid smoke of burning offerings, creating a scene of horror that defied comprehension.

The Ramna massacre was not an isolated incident, you see.

It was part of a broader campaign to annihilate the Bengali Hindu population.

A genocide.

This massacre contributed to the displacement of millions of Hindus, with many fleeing to India for safety. It also underscored the Pakistani military’s strategy of combining physical extermination with cultural destruction.

However, unlike the genocide of the Jews, the Hindu massacres and genocide have been almost completely ignored!

The historical erasure of such atrocities has marginalized the memories of victims and survivors, perpetuating an incomplete narrative of the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Let us start our journey with the most horrific details of an evil rarely imagined but brought upon Hindus with terrible ferocity!

The Rape Camps

In the dead of night, a truck screeched to a halt in a desolate wasteland. Its doors swung open, spilling out the shadows of women—countless, frail, bound. They emerged like ghosts, their silence screaming of horrors untold.

The soldiers moved quickly.

Efficient. Mechanical.

Herding them into lines, sorting them like cattle. Age was the criterion. Age decided life. Or something worse.

The older ones—deemed barren—were executed without hesitation. A bullet. A fall. Forgotten. The younger ones - their fate was darker.

A chilling directive cut through the night: “These women have to be impregnated.”

They were loaded back into the abyss of the truck. But this time, they weren’t women. They were vessels. The destination was a Rape Camp. A factory of torment. A place where motherhood was weaponized. Where humanity was stripped away. Where wombs became battlefields.

The air was thick with fear. With despair. With a silence that would haunt eternity.

The targeting of women was even more severe.

Narrating the atrocities in Dhaka University, the U.S. Consulate in Dhaka reported that naked female bodies were found “hanging from ceiling fans with bits of rope” in the university’s Rokeya Hall; the women had been “raped, shot, and hung by heels”. (Source: "In East Pakistan in 1971: A ‘forgotten’ genocide" / Frontline magazine)

Aubrey Menen also discussed the rapes by the Pakistani army criminals. Read about that in this article in the New York Times.

Here is a poignant extract that shows the demonic ways of the Pakistanis from that article.

In fact, the Pakistani "Army" (it is better to call them a group of War Criminals), set up "Rape Camps" in their cantonments.

Salma Sobhan, an activist and scholar, documented that from the initial stages of the conflict, the Pakistan Army boasted about its opportunity to “convert East Pakistan through engendering true Muslims” – meaning forced impregnation. Yahya’s order to make Muslims out of Bengalis was carried out most cruelly and literally during the nine months of conflict, when an estimated 200,000 women and children were systematically subjected to rape. Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators raped women in their homes, in their local areas, or even forcibly took them to ‘rape camps’. In this process, there were various lists created of names and numbers, which many social workers talked about with this writer. Many of those lists were deliberately burned by the post-war government in 1972, and the remaining lists were all destroyed during 1978-80 and again in 1985-86 by subsequent governments.  Besides forced impregnation, there were other rationales for widespread rape, as well. The army used rape to terrorise the populace, to extract information about the insurgency, to boost the morale of soldiers, and to crush the burgeoning Bangladeshi national identity. In addition, the Pakistan Army’s local militia, known as the Razakaar and al-Badr, used rape to terrorise, in particular the Hindu population, and to gain access to its land and property. (Source: Victory's Silence by Bina D'Costa)

The scale of the crime was unprecedented. It would far surpass the rapes of the Chinese women by the Japanese soldiers or the rapes in the Bosnia war.

The numbers are in dispute, but the story they tell has remained the same for four decades: 200,000 women (or 300,000, or 400,000, depending on the source) raped during the 1971 war in which East Pakistan broke with West Pakistan to become Bangladesh. The American feminist Susan Brownmiller, quoting all three sets of statistics in her 1975 book “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape,” compared the rapes of Bangladesh with the rapes of Chinese women by Japanese soldiers at Nanjing in 1937-38. Accepting even the lowest set of figures for Bangladesh forces a horrifying comparison — the 1992-95 Bosnian war saw one-tenth the number of rapes as did the Bangladesh war. The rapes of Bosnian women forced the world to recognize rape as “an instrument of terror,” as a crime against humanity. But so far no one has been held to account for the sexual violence against Bangladeshi women in 1971. (Source: Bangladesh War’s Toll on Women Still Undiscussed / New York Times)

The barbarity would shame anyone with even a bit of conscience!

It is even impossible to imagine such barbarity!

Anushay Hossain writes in "The Real Kashmir" on how women were treated by the Pakistani War Criminal Army.  

Please read the above - the last para (voice of Dr. Geoffrey Davis) again.  What do you make of such war criminals?

Demonic.  Without any conscience.  Right?

Any human would at least have some realization at some time about the extent of his crime and the depths of his depravations.

Pakistani Army Generals had no idea as to why anyone would even consider those sexual terrorist acts as a crime!

This is very instructive.  

The barbarians were tone-deaf!

The Hindu Genocide - Scale, Barbarity and the Villains

The Hindu Genocide in Bangladesh was documented in various sources, including “Death by Government” by R.J. Rummel and “The Blood Telegram” by Gary J. Bass. Archer Blood, the U.S. Consul General in Dhaka at the time, and journalist Anthony Mascarenhas later detailed the Pakistani Army's systematic targeting of Hindus.

On March 28th, 1971, a telegram from the US Consul General in Dacca to Washington outlined the grim situation unfolding in Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, in the wake of the Pakistan Army's brutal crackdown on March 25th, known as "Operation Searchlight." The operation was launched to suppress the growing independence movement led by the Awami League and its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after the general elections of 1970, in which the League secured a majority.

The telegram detailed the escalating violence, including reports of widespread massacres targeting civilians, particularly members of the Bengali Hindu community and supporters of the Awami League. Entire neighborhoods in Dacca were razed, the University of Dacca was attacked, and students, faculty, and others were systematically executed. The military’s actions, as the telegram noted, were aimed at dismantling the intellectual and political foundation of Bengali nationalism.

The Consul General's account highlighted the Pakistan Army’s premeditated campaign of ethnic and political cleansing, with Hindu communities disproportionately targeted for elimination. This strategy was part of the larger plan to suppress Bengali identity and independence aspirations. The report underscored the enormity of the humanitarian crisis, with thousands of refugees fleeing to India, seeking safety from the violence.

This communication played a pivotal role in informing the US State Department of the unfolding genocide in East Pakistan. However, due to Cold War geopolitics and Pakistan's strategic alignment with the US and China, the American response was largely muted, leading to criticism of its perceived complicity in the tragedy. The events described in this telegram would later be recognized as the beginning of one of the most horrific genocides of the 20th century, culminating in the Bangladesh Liberation War and the eventual independence of Bangladesh in December 1971.

The genocidal situation was allowed to be developed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in collaboration with Pakistan's General Yahya Khan deliberately.

When the consulate staff could not reconcile their moral disgust of what was going on with the implicit American Government policy, the staff sent a telegram of dissent titled "Dissent from the US Policy toward East Pakistan".

This dissent was heard loud and clear by the top leadership in Washington DC.

Please note how both Nixon and Kissinger do understand and realize that what was going on in Bangladesh was akin to the Jewish holocaust in its magnitude and perversity!

Even though the original target of Operation Searchlight may have been the Awami League and supporters of Muhibur Rahman, the real targets became the Hindus and Muslims who aligned with the Hindus.

That Hindus were being overwhelmingly targeted was shared not just by the Consul General Archer Blood (whom Kissinger would call “this maniac in Dacca, the Consul General who is in rebellion.”) but also by an NGO official Desaix Myers who personally visited many remote areas to document the crimes.

The strongest evidence of the Hindu Genocide was how the Hindus were singled out and massacred. Very similar to the genocidal techniques used by the Nazis against the Jews.

Anthony Mascarenhas, in The Sunday Times (London) on June 13, 1971, described harrowing accounts of how the army used brutality to achieve ethnic and cultural cleansing.

“I saw Hindus, hunted from village to village and door to door, shot off-hand after a cursory ‘short-arm inspection’ showed they were uncircumcised. I have heard the screams of men bludgeoned to death in the compound of the Circuit House (civil administrative headquarters) in Comilla. I have seen truckloads of other human targets and those who had the humanity to try to help them hauled off ‘for disposal’ under the cover of darkness and curfew.” (Anthony Mascarenhas in The Sunday Times, London on 13 June 1971) 

Here are two major articles written by Anthony Mascarenhas for The Sunday Times in a pdf format.

The involvement of the Pakistani Generals and their genocidal mindset was clearly and openly on display.

During Bangladesh’s War of Independence in 1971, the Pakistani Army unleashed a reign of terror that redefined brutality. Among the grotesque tools of genocide, circumcision became a grotesque marker of life or death. Pakistani soldiers used this intimate identifier to single out Hindus—a calculated, cold-blooded method to systematize mass murder.

Anthony Mascarenhas, a courageous Pakistani journalist who broke ranks to expose these atrocities, documented the horrors with harrowing clarity. Hindu men were dragged out of their homes, stripped, and subjected to a grim “inspection.” If found uncircumcised, the verdict was swift and final: execution. A single physical trait—a testament to their faith—was enough to condemn them to death.

Mascarenhas' work during those dark days shares the evil that was perpetrated on the Hindus.

The first detailed report on the atrocities was published by a well-known Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, in London’s Sunday Times , on June 13, 1971. Mascarenhas was among a group of Pakistani journalists invited by the government to write in favour of the military actions. He fled to London to report what he had actually seen. In his famous report titled “Genocide”, he wrote: “I saw Hindus hunted from village to village and door to door, shot off-hand after a cursory ‘short arm inspection’ showed they were un-circumcised. I have heard the screams of men bludgeoned to death in the compound of the Circuit House in Comilla. I have seen truckloads of other human targets and those who had the humanity to try to help them hauled off for disposal under the cover of darkness and curfew.” On August 2, 1971, Time magazine published details of massacre. It quoted a senior United States official as saying, “it is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland.” Genocide researcher Professor R.J. Rummel said: “These ‘willing executioners’ were fuelled by an abiding anti-Bengali racism, especially against the Hindu minority. Bengalis were often compared with monkeys and chicken …. And the soldiers were free to kill at will.” (Source: "In East Pakistan in 1971: A ‘forgotten’ genocide" / Frontline magazine)

Everyone knew. But they would speak in private. Very few had the moral courage of those few men and women in the Bangladeshi consulate.

This barbarity did not stand alone. The persecutors paired it with other dehumanizing acts, like forcing individuals to recite Muslim prayers. Those who faltered—those whose voices cracked under the weight of fear and unfamiliarity—were instantly marked as “other” and met the same fate. This was no mere conflict; it was a deliberate, systematic purge.

What unfolded was not just genocide but a chilling blueprint for religious annihilation.

Faith was reduced to a vulnerability. A body became a battlefield. And a people, already on the brink, were forced to contend with the horrifying realization that their very existence had been weaponized against them.

This was the grotesque logic of hate—the machinery of ethnic cleansing laid bare.

The obvious question that comes to one's mind is - if Operation Searchlight and the actions by the Pakistanis were a Hindu Genocide as underscored by so many objective witnesses, then why didn't the Indian government which fought the war against the Pakistanis push to declare it as such?

And Indian officials did not want to provide further ammunition to the irate Hindu nationalists in the Jana Sangh party. From Moscow, D. P. Dhar, India’s ambassador there, decried the Pakistan army’s “preplanned policy of selecting Hindus for butchery,” but, fearing inflammatory politicking from “rightist reactionary Hindu chauvinist parties like Jana Sangh,” he wrote, “We were doing our best not to allow this aspect of the matter to be publicised in India.”"

The answer is the "Secular" (read anti-Hindu) politics of Indian PM Indira Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi led this practice by undermining the targeting of the Hindus.

To fully grasp the context of the massacres, I have summarized 36 massacres in a table to show the extent.

Also, so you get the details, here is a summary of each massacre. You can see the barbarity as well as specific targeting of the Hindus - killing of men and kids and abduction and gang rapes of women.

But the targeting of Hindus wasn't just massacres.

The entire might of the Bangladeshi state was brought up against them.

The Enemy Property Act or the Vested Property Act - State-Led Theft of Hindu Lands

It is not as though atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh are a recent phenomenon. The grim reality is that Bangladesh was architected, from its very inception, to institutionalize the persecution and marginalization of its Hindu population.

One of the most devastating tools of this systemic dispossession was the Vested Property Act (VPA), rooted in the Enemy Property Act of 1965 enacted by Pakistan. The law was wielded to systematically strip Hindus of their properties, branding them as "enemies of the state." Professor Abul Barkat of Dhaka University meticulously documented the catastrophic impact of this act in his book "Inquiry into Causes and Consequences of Deprivation of Hindu Minorities in Bangladesh through the Vested Property Act." His findings reveal a harrowing picture of targeted injustice:

• 748,850 Hindu families were dispossessed of their agricultural land.
• The cumulative land lost by Hindu households totaled 1.64 million acres (6,640 km²), representing 53% of all Hindu-owned land and 5.3% of the total land area of Bangladesh.
• By 1997, 40% of Hindu families in Bangladesh had suffered under this act.
• Over half of Hindu-owned land had been confiscated, a devastating blow to the community's economic and social fabric.

This was not just a matter of land theft; it was a systematic effort at ethnic and religious cleansing, designed to erase Hindus from Bangladesh’s socio-political landscape. The act's enduring legacy has been the relentless decline of the Hindu population in the country, cementing their status as an unfinished agenda of dispossession and persecution.

The Vested Property Act was not merely a discriminatory policy; it was a declaration of intent to exclude and diminish an entire community. Its implementation and consequences serve as a stark reminder of the deep-seated bigotry that remains embedded in the country's institutions and psyche.

Recent Anti-Hindu Attacks

The attack on Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's Prime Minister, stemmed from a volatile student-led movement against corruption and alleged electoral malpractice.

Initially rooted in seemingly legitimate demands for accountability and reform, the movement quickly unraveled into chaos, exposing deep-seated bigotry within sections of Bangladeshi society.

As protests intensified, opportunistic extremist elements redirected the focus of dissent, framing the political conflict as a religious one.

This shift was neither accidental nor isolated.

Radical Islamist factions, historically opposed to Hasina's secular policies and ties to India, co-opted the movement to fan anti-Hindu sentiments.

By conflating Hasina's political identity with her perceived association with Hindus and India, these elements turned public outrage into a pretext for violence.

What began as a political uprising devolved into widespread attacks on Bangladesh's Hindu minority, including temples, homes, and businesses.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), with its visible Hindu affiliation, became a prime target. Its temples and members faced gruesome violence, a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of religious minorities. This episode underscored how fragile socio-political movements can be hijacked by bigotry, transforming demands for justice into tools for communal hatred, perpetuating cycles of violence that Bangladesh has yet to fully address.

The current government led by Yunus granted bail to Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, the chief of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, an organization linked to extremist activities. Rahmani had been imprisoned since 2013 for inciting violence and was implicated in the murder of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider.

Rahmani was not the only Jihadi who has been released. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist, has suggested that the Yunus administration may have released 144 hardened jihadists as well.

On July 19, 2024, amid nationwide protests in Bangladesh, a significant security breach occurred at the Narsingdi District Jail. Thousands of assailants attacked the facility, setting fires and breaking cell locks, which led to the escape of 826 inmates, including nine militants associated with banned extremist groups like Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansarullah Bangla Team. (Source: Dhaka Tribune)

The attackers overwhelmed prison guards, looted 85 firearms and over 8,000 rounds of ammunition, and caused extensive damage to the prison infrastructure. Some inmates were reportedly beaten and forced to flee against their will. (Source: BDNews24)

Interestingly, Salah Uddin discusses the escapes and the arms that they have gotten access to.

The situation in Bangladesh worsened following a violent jailbreak in Narsingdi District on July 19, 2024. Armed assailants attacked the prison, freeing 909 inmates, including jihadists from groups like Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansar Al Islam. They also looted 85 firearms, including automatic rifles and over 8,150 rounds of ammunition. Similar incidents occurred in prisons across the country, with hundreds of prisoners escaping and large quantities of weapons falling into the hands of militant groups. Additionally, more than 400 police stations were looted, yielding thousands of firearms, ammunition, and bulletproof jackets now in the possession of jihadist outfits. Reports also indicate that a significant cache of weapons, including AK-47 rifles, has entered Bangladesh via the Myanmar border since August 2024. These weapons are believed to be intended for use against Hindus and other minority groups. (Source: "Hundreds of looted weapons remain in the hands of notorious jihadists in Bangladesh" / Weekly Blitz)

Here are some scenes of mob attacks on Hindus that have been uploaded to X by the eye-witnesses.

Targeting Hindus has increased a lot.

Targeting ISKCON - Why?

The attacks have become even more specific against a Hindu organization named ISKCON.

Why is that important?

Tulsi Gabbard, the new nominee for Director of National Intelligence, is an ISKCON devotee herself.

In this video, then-U.S. Congresswoman from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard shared her thoughts on ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada’s achievements and contributions at a special ISKCON 50th Anniversary Gala Event in Washington D.C. as the keynote speaker.

We had discussed the particular animosity that Hillary Clinton showered on Tulsi during her campaign as the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2020.

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In a startling revelation during a meet at the Clinton Global Initiative, Muhammad Yunus provided a detailed account of how the so-called "Revolution" against Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh was meticulously orchestrated. Yunus admitted that the movement, initially portrayed as a grassroots uprising against corruption, was part of a larger, calculated plot to overthrow the Hasina government.

He did this as Bill Clinton looked on and cheered the jihadis approvingly.

Describing the intricate layers of the plan, Yunus highlighted how political dissent was systematically weaponized, leveraging grievances among the youth and student groups to create widespread unrest. He acknowledged that this unrest was not organic but carefully engineered to destabilize the ruling Awami League's hold on power.

Yunus went further, directly naming a prominent jihadi figure as the "mastermind" behind the operation. He pointed out how this individual and their network exploited public discontent to fuel chaos, which ultimately morphed into targeted violence against minorities, particularly Hindus and ISKCON members.

The admission raises serious questions about the motivations and alliances behind Yunus's involvement and acquiescence of the Clintons, as well as the broader implications for Bangladesh's political stability.

Interestingly, in 2016, Yunus had called Trump's win in 2016 a "solar eclipse".

With that as the context, one needs to view the attacks that are happening with the full state protection to the jihadis.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), has now become a prime target. Its temples and members have faced gruesome violence.

These episodes have underscored how fragile socio-political movements can be hijacked by bigotry, transforming demands for justice into tools for communal hatred, perpetuating cycles of violence that Bangladesh has yet to fully address.

Arrest of a Monk

Chinmoy Krishna Das, also known as Krishna Das Prabhu, is a prominent Hindu monk and former member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Bangladesh.

He has been an outspoken advocate for the rights and protection of the Hindu minority in the predominantly Muslim nation.

In October 2024, during a significant rally in Chattogram, he and others were falsely accused of disrespecting the national flag of Bangladesh, leading to charges of sedition.

Chinmoy Krishna Das and others were accused of desecrating the national flag by raising ISKCON’s saffron flag alongside the national flag on the Independence Monument at the New Market intersection in Chittagong.

Let this sink in for a moment!

Just having the ISKCON flag along with the Bangladesh flag was a disrespect for these jihadis.

On November 25, 2024, Das was arrested at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while en route to Chattogram. The arrest was executed by the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. Following his detention, he was presented before the Chattogram Sixth Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, where his bail application was denied, and he was ordered to remain in custody pending further proceedings. (Source: AP News)

All a scripted charade!

Disinformation from the "Secular" and Anti-Hindu India Media

The Human Rights Center for Bangladesh (HRCB) worked in collaboration with ISCKON Bangladesh to distribute relief materials and cash to the impacted families in Feni, Comilla, and Noakhali districts.

You can read about it here.

HRCB, in partnership with ISKCON Bangladesh, Distributed Flood Relief 2024 in Feni, Commilla and Noakhali districts in Bangladesh – Human Rights Center for Bangladesh

Human Rights Center for Bangladesh Human Rights organization working to uphold the rights of people in BangladeshHRCB Editor

Here is the video on HRCB's YouTube channel. Downloaded it here, for we don't know how long it will be up there, given the circumstances and the persecution of ISCKON folks.

Since ISCKON and other Hindu organizations keep doing relief works, some of the enthusiastic social media content creators took a 2022 video to underscore the social hypocrisy of the Bangladesh majority community - how an organization like ISCKON gave relief to the very people a few months back is being targeted for a ban and their cadres being arrested and hit.

The Indian media organizations that regularly carry the water for anti-Hindu groups and forces, tried to discount that story by triumphantly showing how the video used by the content creators was not from 2024 (as claimed) but from 2022. Really?!

If instead of nitpicking on the videos by some lazy content creators in a bid to delegitimize the larger message of the content creators of bigotry and hypocrisy of Bangladeshi Muslims, which is valid, the tabloids like "The Quint" had focused on the atrocities being unleashed on the Hindus in a saga of continued genocide, they would have some claim to being journalists.

They have been and continue to be prostitutes of social bigotry cloaked in selective morality.

Let us move to another aspect of these attacks - a country-wide span of these acts.

Scale of Anti-Hindu Attacks

Since the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024, Bangladesh experienced a series of attacks targeting the Hindu community, including numerous temples across various divisions.

The Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council reported 2,010 incidents of attacks on minorities, including 69 temples, between August 4 and August 20. These attacks spanned various divisions of the country, with significant incidents in each region.

First a table for a quick look.

If you have reports and details of any more attacks, please share the details with us - we will add them to this article for a more comprehensive list.

Khulna Division

• Meherpur District: An ISKCON temple was vandalized and set ablaze, resulting in the destruction of deities of Lord Jagannath, Baladev, and Subhadra Devi. (Source: India Today)
• Satkhira District: The Jessoreswari Kali Temple in Shyamnagar was targeted, with the theft of a golden crown gifted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Chattogram (Chittagong) Division

• Chattogram District: Multiple Hindu temples, including one in the Navgraha Bari area, were attacked and set on fire by violent mobs. (Source: India Today)

Dhaka Division

• Dhaka District: The Dhakeshwari National Temple, the country's largest Hindu temple, faced heightened security concerns, leading to increased protection measures by volunteers from various religious communities. (Source: Le Monde)

Barishal Division

• Patuakhali District: A Hindu house and temple were attacked, vandalized, and set on fire by a group of 20 to 25 attackers. (Source: The Daily Star)

Rangpur Division

• Dinajpur District: Hindu homes and temples were attacked and vandalized, leading to significant property damage and community displacement. (Source: Deccan Herald)

Sylhet Division

• Sylhet District: Hindu temples and properties were targeted, resulting in damage to religious sites and personal properties. (Source: Deccan Herald)

Here is a quick list of the Hindu properties destroyed and attacked.

The attacks continue to this day as do the destruction of temples across Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, the disinformation by the media and the so-called news industry continues.

For, profit cannot be made from truth. It cannot match the power and money of the propagandist.

The time may have come for the Hindus to think and structure their societies in a completely different way.