On August 5th Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh was ousted by an internal coup that many believe might have been orchestrated by America.The truth of course we’ll learn in the fullness of time.
No sooner had PM Hasina arrived in India as the nearest safe nation, in the same timeframe the potential genocide of Hindus started with Islamists targeting Hindu women, Hindu Mandirs and Hindu businesses. There are now countless examples of rapes of Hundreds of Hindu women. Hindu business in their hundreds have been torched and many Hindu Mandirs faced the same treatment.
The authorities so far have remained absent whilst this systematic abuse of human rights of Hindus is taking place.It is interesting to note the absence of the woke western media, institutions, politicians and so-called celebrities whose silence is also deafening.
For those of you who may not be aware, this is not the first time Hindus have faced a genocide in Bangladesh. In 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan, ‘Operation Searchlight’ was instigated in the then East Pakistan by Pakistan. The Pakistani Islamists went on a rampage to eradicate Hindus. Most independent authorities believe that Pakistani soldiers and local pro-Pakistan militia killed around 3,000,000 Bengalis (mostly Hindus) and raped at least 400,000 Hindu women in a systematic campaign of mass murder and genocidal sexual violence. In the 20th Century this was the biggest genocide since that committed by the Germans against the Jewish community in the 1940’s.
India won the war against Pakistan and freed the people of East Pakistan to become the free nation of Bangladesh. How ironic, India a Hindu majority nationthat freed Muslims in Bangladesh from the Pakistani occupation is now having to witness Bangladeshis systematically targeting Hindus for mass murder and rape. Bangladesh will never be able to live this evil down, ever. As a nation every Bangladeshi should hang their heads in shame. Today they are doing exactly what the Pakistanis did in 1971, an attempt for the total eradication of Hindus.There is no difference between those Pakistani monsters and the home-grown Islamist monsters in Bangladesh.
Did you know that at that time ‘The Concert for Bangladesh’, was organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar on 1st August 1971. So far, some $12m has been sent to Bangladesh to support the victims of that time, and since. Ironically the money was used and dispersed for feeding the hungry and providing medical help via the administration of a local Hindu mandir. That same mandir that saved Bangladeshi lives today stands torched – the treachery of the Bangladeshi extremists now shames the whole nation.
Hindus across the globe have raised their voices. In the UK the Hindu Forum of Britain wrote to the Prime Minister asking for reassurance that the British government will bring to bear all available tools to impress on the Bangladeshis that the Human Rights of Hindus and all other minorities need to be protected. More than 40 Hindus organisations, mandirs and community centres have also added their voice by writing individual letters or as a collective.
Whilst I accept that nations don’t have a right to interfere in the internal workings of a democratic nation, I do believe that nations do have a right to use all diplomatic, financial, trade and cultural tools to make it clear to Bangladesh, protect all your citizens otherwise get ready to suffer the consequences. Trade agreements can be suspended immediately, and it should become mandatory that part of all future agreements will be the protection of Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh.
Even the office of the United Nations Secretary General said the violence in Bangladesh should be "tamped down", adding that it stands against any "racially based attacks" or "racially based incitement to violence".
Whilst Keir Starmerexpressed his concern, it is noticeable that neither he, nor his Foreign Secretary David Lammy, made any reference to the plight of Hindus. This is disturbing since many people believe that this behaviouris Labour appeasing to the Muslim community toprotect its vote bank in the UK.
Whether Bangladesh turns into a crackpot terrorist ridden state like Pakistan is now surely on the cards. One wonders if the people in Bangladesh realise and recognise that they stand on the precipice of anarchy. In trying to eliminate Hindus, it’s likely Bangladesh will assure its own destruction.
I am reminded of the words of Bertolt Brecht, “The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.When evildoing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"When crimes begin to pile up, they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
