Human Chain Event to Protest Communal Attack against Minorities

Religious and other ethnic minorities losing their grounds leaps and bound due to frequent communal attack, looting, rape, murders, eviction on them by the communal, radical and evil force of our countries. We have witness several communal violence at Ramu, Ukhiya, Coxsbazar, Satkhira, Taindong, Sathia Pabna and so on. No sooner had one violence winding up, another one is break out. All this happen due to absence of rule of law and fail to bringing the culprits to book. State and government only maintain their duty just providing primary reliefs to the victims.

On November 14, 2013 this time Hindu minority peoples of Nomopara, Char Kawa, in Barisal experience another kind of shameful nightmare against them. The violence, arson attack and looting break out from a trivial matter like playing badminton between two groups of youth while quarreling each other. Instantly the violence transform into communal shape and a boy name Parvez being killed while three other injured, taking the injured to Dhaka for treatment, attackers spreading rumors that one injured was died on the way taking Dhaka among the agitated attended pupils to justify their attack. Without thinking much of that they attack, arson, vandalize and looting the Hindu villages. Now the victims passing their time under open sky.

In protesting this barbaric, heinous and uncivilized attack, Civil society groups comprising Janoudyog, Platform against communalism and terrorism organized a human chain on November 17, 2013 in front of National Press Club wherein attended by Rasedh Khan Menon, MP, Advocate Sultana Kamal, Former advisor to the caretaker government; Ajoy Roy, Coordinator of Platform against communalism and terrorism; Nurul Rahman Selim, general secretary of Gonotantra Party; Ajoy Roy, President of Samajik Andolon; Nur Mohammad Talukder, President of College Univerities Teachers Association; Ziauddin Tareek Ali, Trustee, Liberation war museu;, Numan Ahmed Khan, Executive Director of IED; Professor Robaet Ferdous, Associate Professor of Dhaka University; Pankaj Bhattacherjee, President of Oikyanap; Dipayon Khisa, Human Rights activists, Human Rights defenders from Indigenous Peoples, various rights activist, university teachers, political parties, cultural activist and journalist to showing their solidarity towards the victims of Barisal. The speakers at the human chain urged and shouted the government to immediate arrest of perpetrators and culprits, bringing them to book rehabilitated the victims with proper dignity and ensure human rights situation of all citizen of Bangladesh irrespective of class, creed, religion, occupation, ethnicity etc.