Awami League netas, Hindu households go into hiding as assaults proceed | India Information

KOLKATA: “Undisclosed location” is supposedly the most secure handle in Bangladesh for members and supporters of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League amid a quick and livid backlash that has since additionally enveloped minorities.
Calls and texts to Awami League functionaries in hiding are invariably being responded to with a message that they’re “alive, protected and tense” inside the nation, albeit with out revealing their present location.
“Each evening, we hear about Hindus, Awami League supporters and artists being focused. We couldn’t have imagined a day would come after we must flee our houses and never have the ability to reveal the place we’re staying,” stated an individual in hiding.
A number of Awami League members and supporters whom TOI texted replied with a “namaste” emoji. Some telephones had been switched off, whereas others checked their messages after a number of hours and didn’t reply. Just a few requested that this reporter delete their responses over WhatsApp.
A normally outspoken Bangladeshi Hindu despatched a one-line message, “In a protected location, however listening to plenty of information from associates.”
Arif Prodipto Ali, a Chhatra League member from Rangpur, went into hiding after narrowly escaping an assault in Alamnagar. “It’s a very tough state of affairs right here. A lot of our leaders have both been killed or kidnapped. I someway managed to flee. My house was attacked and vandalised. Goons have taken over. Arson and killing have develop into the norm. Police are nowhere to be seen,” he stated.
Chhatra League is the scholar wing of Hasina’s occasion.
Dhaka-based filmmaker Shankha Dasgupta, among the many few to have stayed put within the face of threats, thanked his Muslim associates for doing every little thing to guard him and his household.
“A lot of my different associates are in hiding. In some areas, minorities are being attacked by radicals, whereas in different areas Muslim associates and neighbours are defending them,” he advised TOI.
“Temples are being destroyed, too. People who have escaped vandalism and arson to date are being guarded by Muslims in these neighbourhoods. The state of affairs is deeply unsettling. Some Hindu households I do know had been attacked and their homes set ablaze.”
The military chief’s announcement that an interim govt led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus could be sworn in Thursday might have calmed issues down a bit, however worry continues to hound minorities on the receiving finish of the backlash since Hasina resigned as PM Monday and took flight.
Dasgupta stated it was the administration’s duty to make folks really feel protected in spite of everything that has occurred over the previous few days. “This nation belongs to everybody. It’s the responsibility of legislation enforcement businesses to take down these breaking legal guidelines. As a rustic, we’ve got to lift our voice towards this.”