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Housewives of
minority families raped en masse:
Six minority families threatened to leave their abodes
Photo: HRCBM
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr.Ajoy.Roy
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 1:54 PM
Subject: [mukto-mona] Bangladesh minority cleansing continues unabated:
Housewives of minority families raped en masse. Six minority families threatened
to leave their abodes: "Bicharer Vani Nirabe Nivrite Kande"
Subject: Six minority families threatened to leave their abodes.
Dear Mukto-monas,
“Bicharer Vani Nirabe Nivrite Ka(n)de” continues in Bangladesh especially of
religious, ethnic and cultural minorities in Bangladesh. Character of harassment
on minorities has manifold views: Attempted elimination of influential minority
leaders, especially in urban areas, eviction from their abodes and grabbing of
properties, and en mass raping of girls irrespective their age and marital
status. Some time back I stopped reporting such incidents, as my write-ups are
not creating any ripples in the society, rather it is increasing numbers of my
enemies. Yet still my conscience tells me to continue the effort to bring this
burning issue of minorities to public.
Here is yet another story of minority repression done by local goondas in a
remote place of Chuadanga district.
Many thanks,
Dr. Ajoy Roy
http://www.mukto-mona.com
Housewives of minority families raped en masse
Date line 11th July, 2004: Damurhuda (Chuadanga)
The social decease called communal repression against ethnic and religious
minorities continuing unabated, though it may appear, at least on the surface
slowing down in comparison to what were happening years back. But the slow and
steady process is continuing un-noticed and unreported. Because, the local
reporters are now tired of reporting such too familiar incidents that news
editors of the national dailies are no more interested in repeating the same
known phenomenon again and again. These events, even in the eye of general
readers, have little news values. News values might have been belittled, the
events may be kept in the dark to the countrymen or to the outside world, but
that does not solve the problems of those wretched families facing even in
remote corners of the countryside where neither the hands of administration
(police or civil) or the good wills of the human right organizations could
reach. There Bicharer Vani Nirabe Nivrite Kande.
This time the place of occurrence is a remote village named Chitla Natunpara
within Damurhuda Upazilla in the district of Chuadanga. On the fateful night of
Sunday, July 11, 2004 a group of local goondas and mastans armed with lathis and
other lethal weapons forcibly entered the house of a Hindu minority family.
Under threat of weapons they forcibly over powered the head of the family
putting him under a chouki (a four legged cot) and hold a knife on the throat of
his baby daughter (3 years). The terrorists numbering not less than five then
forcibly gang raped the housewife (28) one after another repeatedly. They
threatened of severe consequences including killing if the matter was informed
to the police and made public, when they left the premise. On the following
morning hearing the cries of the family members nearby villagers came to their
rescue and went around to search for the culprits. But they had already left the
village and were out of their reach.
The villagers, together with the affected family members went to the Damurhuda
police station to lodge a protest and file a case. The police instead of hearing
them drove them away. Experiencing the police attitude, the minority families
were subdued and kept mum. But they, being encouraged by the villagers, somewhat
reluctantly told every thing what were happening to the minority families of the
village for the last few months to the reporters working for national dailies
and local news papers of Damurhuda a few days later.
When asked, the police authority of Damurhuda flatly denied the incident(s) of
any rapping, but admitted that a few days back four or five people entered the
house of a villager at night. But no body informed them of such incident. Apart
from the incident described above about a fortnight back wife of a day labourer
was gang rapped by a group of armed miscreants. A month ago, a similar incident
of gang rapping took place in a minority family in which a young housewife was
forcibly lifted away and then rapped en masse. It is learnt that the same
terrorist group numbering not more than a dozen is committing these types of
social crimes with out any hindrance.
The police did not take any action against the culprits nor took any note of the
incidents including the latest one. As a result, the terrorists of the locality,
under the police protection and perhaps under political sanctuary, are
committing crime after crime un-deterrent. The rapists are roaming about freely
and threatening the affected families.
Finding no way out, nor any assurance or protection from the police or civil
administration, and under constant threats of the terrorists, six poor minority
families had left the village to an unknown destination. Many assumed the
families are either hiding in their relatives’ houses in faraway
village(s) or moved to next-door country. But big question is can they escape
from the brutality of the fundamentalists and communalists in another village?
The communalists of the country precisely want this to happen i.e. to get the
minorities out of the country, as this will facilitate of their ultimate goal of
making this country a monolithic Islamic state in the model of Talbanism. And
the local mastans then could grab the minority properties left by them. A really
very good effective way of increasing the wealth.
Who cares for pluralistic society based on the philosophy of ‘Unity in
Diversity’? This is a philosophy of nasaras, murtads, the irreligious
secularists and western democrats. We the followers Islam believe in only one
Allah, one Kitab, and one Paigambar (the Prophet) and one Ummah, the Muslims and
nothing else !
Why should we get concerned with the fates of those Kafirs; let them go to hell.
After all, Allah’s Kitab has prescribed such destiny for them ! Isn’t it ?
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