Staff Reporter :
Several hundred protesters on Friday blocked the busy Shahbagh intersection in the city for hours in protest against attacks on the members of the Hindu community at Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria district and other parts of the country.
The protesters under the banner of general students of Dhaka University started demonstration there 10am and thereby halted traffic movement.
Buses, mini-buses, private cars, microbuses, rickshaws and other vehicles were stuck from the National Press Club to Rupashi Bangla Intersection and Katabon and to the
University campus – despite Friday being a weekend. Buses were taking other routes to the University campus.
The law enforcers took position around the protesters.
They (protesters) burnt an effigy of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque around 11:00am who used abusive words targeting the Hindus.
They demanded resignation of Sayedul Hoque from the Ministry. Some of the placards they carried, read – ‘Is it a crime to be born as Hindu?’, ‘Is migration the only way?’.
Earlier in the day, different organisations comprising Hindu community members blocked Topkhana Road in front of the Jatiya Press Club around 9:00am, said Ukhing May, Assistant Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Traffic).
Later, the students of the Dhaka University joined the protest, who were also chanting slogans demanding punishment of the culprits.
Ripon Dey, a fourth-year student of DU said, “No government official has taken the issue (attack on minorities) seriously.” Padmabati Debi, a Central Committee Member of Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad (BHBCOP) said, “The government should take these communal attacks more seriously to regain the confidence of the minorities of the country.”
On October 30, an unruly mob equipped with sharp weapons went berserk and demolished a number of Hindu temples and nearly 100 houses in Nasirnagar upazila following a rumour of a Facebook post
Several hundred protesters on Friday blocked the busy Shahbagh intersection in the city for hours in protest against attacks on the members of the Hindu community at Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria district and other parts of the country.
The protesters under the banner of general students of Dhaka University started demonstration there 10am and thereby halted traffic movement.
Buses, mini-buses, private cars, microbuses, rickshaws and other vehicles were stuck from the National Press Club to Rupashi Bangla Intersection and Katabon and to the
University campus – despite Friday being a weekend. Buses were taking other routes to the University campus.
The law enforcers took position around the protesters.
They (protesters) burnt an effigy of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque around 11:00am who used abusive words targeting the Hindus.
They demanded resignation of Sayedul Hoque from the Ministry. Some of the placards they carried, read – ‘Is it a crime to be born as Hindu?’, ‘Is migration the only way?’.
Earlier in the day, different organisations comprising Hindu community members blocked Topkhana Road in front of the Jatiya Press Club around 9:00am, said Ukhing May, Assistant Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Traffic).
Later, the students of the Dhaka University joined the protest, who were also chanting slogans demanding punishment of the culprits.
Ripon Dey, a fourth-year student of DU said, “No government official has taken the issue (attack on minorities) seriously.” Padmabati Debi, a Central Committee Member of Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad (BHBCOP) said, “The government should take these communal attacks more seriously to regain the confidence of the minorities of the country.”
On October 30, an unruly mob equipped with sharp weapons went berserk and demolished a number of Hindu temples and nearly 100 houses in Nasirnagar upazila following a rumour of a Facebook post
