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| Bangladeshi Islamists Burning Buddhists. |
Dhaka (AsiaNews) - Acts of violence,
especially against Bangladesh's Hindu minority, and strikes (hartal) continue
across the country as Jamaat-e-Islami supporters call for reunification with
Pakistan, and the creation of a "pure" state, free of its non-Muslim
population.
Since unrest began more than a week
ago, 87 people have died - mostly police and peaceful protesters. The
atmosphere is increasingly tense after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),
the country's main opposition party, decided to throw its support behind Jamaat
and call for an end of war tribunals set up by the ruling Awami League.
In addition, the BNP has called for the
death penalty imposed on Jamaat's deputy chief Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to be
dropped, and for the government to resign. For Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,
leader of the Awami League, opposition demands are unacceptable because they
would mean her defeat.
However, Jamaat appears bent on
pursuing its agenda come what may. With the BNP on its side, it does not seem
willing to stop its terror strategy. In fact, it has begun handing out weapons
to women and children to "save Islam and its soul from danger".
Well-organised, the Islamic party has a large pool of supporters. On a
number of blogs, many of them are openly calling for reunification with
Pakistan and the expulsion of Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, and Christians.
Instructions are also provided on how
to sabotage railway lines, attack security forces, and cause unrest during
strikes. Some of the suggestions are quite "creative". For example,
on one site instructions are given on how to generate pictures using the photo
of death-row leader Sayeedi against the background of a full moon.
Waved as if they were real thing, the pictures have been used the stress
the urgency to save him and avoid going to hell. In other touched up photos
showing people floating in the air, radiant faces, jinn (spirits) and angels
are presented as supporting the Muslim revolt.
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| Jammat-e-Islami Leader Hossain Sayeedi. |
As the country's largest minority (9.6
per cent), Hindus have been the main target until now. What is more, most
witnesses in the war crimes trials have been Hindus. Although exact figures do
not exist, Bangladesh's War of Liberation in 1971 is said to have caused the
death of up to 1.5 million civilians. At least 200,000 women were raped, mostly
Hindu. About 60 per cent of all Bangladeshi refugees in India were Hindu.
The latest wave of attacks also suggest
that other religious (Buddhist and Christian) and ethnic (tribal) minorities
might be the next to be targeted, as was the case in the past. In fact, police
recently arrested a group of Muslim fundamentalists that planned to kill ten
teachers at an Ahmadiyya school. Ahmadis are a Muslim religious group deemed
heretical by mainstream Islam.
It is unclear what will happen now, but
there are growing fears that things might get out of hand. Shahbagh, a
secular-oriented non-political movement named after a Dhaka neighbourhood, continues
its peaceful protests and initiatives, but is losing popularity.
What appeared to be local movement
inspired by the 'Arab spring' is becoming increasingly isolated and is seen as
nothing but an ally of the Awami League. Various political parties, including
small factions within the Islamic party, have called for dialogue, but no one
has yet said on what terms.
Meanwhile, Jamaat appears to be getting
stronger. Although it lacks the right numbers, it has been backed by a stronger
ally, the BNP, something that makes the situation even worse. Should the BNP
back away from Jamaat, it would likely allow the Awami League to win the next
elections, something that might not be on BNP leader Khaleda Zia's agenda.
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| Rioting Bangladeshi Islamists in Dhaka. |
Dhaka : The toll in fierce clashes in
Bangladesh between activists of an Islamist party and law enforcers over a
war-crime trial verdict has risen to 42, the authorities said. Dozens were
injured in about a dozen districts of Bangladesh, Xinhua reported citing an
agency.
It was not known whether all the
victims were engaged in party politics. To thwart any further untoward
incidents, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have been deployed in
violence-hit cities and towns. BGB personnel also patrolled some important
areas in the capital city from Thursday night.
Clashes, arson, vandalism and detention
have also been reported in parts of capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country
since Thursday. The incidents of violence erupted soon after the International
Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 pronounced the verdict Thursday afternoon, awarding
death sentence to Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a leader of the Jamaat party.
Jamaat says Sayeedi is the victim of
political vendetta. In the violence since Friday, over a dozen people including
Jamaat men were dead and scores including policemen and journalists injured in
Dhaka and elsewhere in the country.
Jamaat says Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League party has targeted the party to split the
ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia-led 18-party main opposition alliance in which
Jamaat is a key ally.
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(Chittagong - its original Burmese name was Sittagaung - Hill Tracts the border region with nearly 100% Buddhist-Burmese and Buddhist-Yakhines in 1960s has been tragically reduced to just over 10% Buddhist today by the countless numbers of Islamic pogroms committed by the millions and millions of Bengali-Muslim settlers wholeheartedly supported by successive Bangladeshi Governments and brutally-violent Bangladeshi Islamists funded by Wahabi Saudi Arabia.
The Buddhist population in Bangladesh right now is measly 0.7% from over 20% just before the Second World War. The tragic fact that nowadays Bangladesh is almost Buddhist-free and the genocidal extinction of Burmese-Buddhists in Bangladesh has been conveniently ignored by Saudi-funded OIC and its backers United Nations and United States.
Maybe Burma and Bangladesh should amiably exchange Burma's all Muslims for Bangladesh's last remaining Buddhists if these Bangladeshi Islamists really want a pure Islamic country as the Buddhist-Burmese also prefer their country a pure Buddhist one too. Like what happened between Hindu India and Islamic Pakistan during the Partition of British India to India and Pakistan in 1947.
The Buddhist population in Bangladesh right now is measly 0.7% from over 20% just before the Second World War. The tragic fact that nowadays Bangladesh is almost Buddhist-free and the genocidal extinction of Burmese-Buddhists in Bangladesh has been conveniently ignored by Saudi-funded OIC and its backers United Nations and United States.
Maybe Burma and Bangladesh should amiably exchange Burma's all Muslims for Bangladesh's last remaining Buddhists if these Bangladeshi Islamists really want a pure Islamic country as the Buddhist-Burmese also prefer their country a pure Buddhist one too. Like what happened between Hindu India and Islamic Pakistan during the Partition of British India to India and Pakistan in 1947.
The exodus of Buddhists from Bangladeshi borderland has already begun and the thousands and thousands of these pogroms-fleeing Bangladeshi-Buddhists - who ethnically are either Burmese or Yakhines - are now happily resettling themselves in the former villages of Bengali-Muslims displaced during recent Arakan race riots.
Maybe the recent burning of Muslims and their mosques and madrassas in Burma's Meikhtilar will encourage Muslims to leave Burma like the frequent Islamic-pogroms in Bangladesh are the incentives for Buddhists there to leave Bangladesh.)
Maybe the recent burning of Muslims and their mosques and madrassas in Burma's Meikhtilar will encourage Muslims to leave Burma like the frequent Islamic-pogroms in Bangladesh are the incentives for Buddhists there to leave Bangladesh.)
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| Above photos are the tragic destruction of Buddhist temples and monasteries by the latest 2012-September Islamic pogrom in Chittagong Hill Tracts Region. |
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