Most Hindu elders do not remember when they had faced
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Some recollect violence during 1971 by marauding Pakistan army and their local collaborators.
As most Hindus here had fled to India for safety, they did not have any direct experience of violence -- not until Nov 2.
Like other planned attacks on religious minorities elsewhere in Bangladesh, the perpetrators targeted the house of worship to break the morale of the minorities.
It is a pattern that has often been repeated -- at Taindong (Khagrhachharhi), Ramu and Ukhia (Cox’s Bazar), Sathkira, Begumganj, Gaibanda, Lalmonirhat and other places.
But the biggest worry -- leaders of all political parties belonging to the majority community, despite their political differences, seem to take the same line of connivance or indifference when minorities are attacked.
