Hindu temples pounded in Bangladesh over Facebook post
An indignant host vandalised during slightest 5 Hindu temples and pounded skill in Bangladesh after an purported Facebook post derisive one of Islam’s holiest sites, military and residents pronounced Monday.
Scores of people pounded a places of ceremony late Sunday in a eastern city of Nasirnagar after a internal Hindu fisherman allegedly posted an edited print on amicable media of a Hindu deity inside a black cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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District military arch Mizanur Rahman pronounced dual nonconformist groups had been demonstrating to direct a detain and execution of a fisherman when a organisation of between 100 and 150 group pennyless divided and pounded a temples.
A internal Hindu village personality pronounced during slightest 15 temples were vandalised and countless Hindu idols were crushed during a hour-long rampage.
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“They vandalised 200 Hindu houses and set 8 shops on fire. At slightest 150 group were harmed as they attempted to conflict a attack,” Somesh Roy, a village elder, told AFP.
Police pronounced they had arrested 9 group in tie with a assault and paramilitary limit guards have been deployed in a area to forestall serve attacks.
“We have also arrested a 30-year-old Hindu male for a Facebook post. He’ll be charged with breaching internet laws,” Nasirnagar military arch Abdul Kader said, adding a post had already been taken down. Hindus make adult scarcely 10 percent of a 160 million people who live in a Muslim-majority country.
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Bangladesh in new months has gifted a series of attacks on people from eremite minorities, physical bloggers, publishers, writers, foreigners, many of that were claimed by nonconformist militants.
The nation witnessed identical attacks on Hindu temples after a argumentative 2014 elections when a physical celebration led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won polls boycotted by a opposition.
In late 2012 Muslim mobs also torched Buddhist monasteries, houses and shops in a coastal Cox’s Bazar district following a Buddhist youth’s purported insulting print post of a Koran.
“We are sleepy of such steady incidents. It is really hapless that nothing of a culprits of prior attacks are brought to justice,” inhabitant Hindu village personality Rana Dasgupta told AFP.
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