Being Hindu In Bangladesh: The Untold Story

by Deep Halder

Post poll, anti-Hindu violence in 2001 was so alarming that many Bangladeshi civil rights activists believe it surpassed the 1971 genocide.

But it’s a mistake that all democratic governments make in trying to control one set of extremists. They often play with the other set that looks less worse than the other (but) in the course of time, they all become Frankensteins’ he said.

Of the many prisms through which one can view the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, is as a ‘selective genocide of minority Hindus’; and this prism has surprisingly been the most neglected one.