Hindu hounding continues unabated in Bangladeshi hellscape, youth hacked to death in broad daylight in Noakhali

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, October 17, 2025

The selective hounding of minority Hindus including daylight killings, displacement from homes and forcible occupation of temple land continue with impunity in different parts of Bangladesh. In fact this had always been the case since the partition of the country in 1947 , leading to forced reduction of Hindu population from 35% at the time of partition to just below 8% now. There was hope for peace in the initial years of Awami League rule since the emergence of independent Bangladesh in 1971 but this evaporated soon with military take-over of the country following the assassination of Sheikh Mujeev and his entire family. During the long 9 year rule of military dictator H.M Ershad there was a modicum of security for the Hindu minorities as the law and order machinery functioned with a reasonable degree of fairness but then during the rule of BNP in 1991-1996 and 2001-2006 life was next to hellish for the hapless minorities. The long twenty year rule of Awami League in two phases (1996-2001, 2009-2024) provided a minimum security of life and property to the party’s captive Hindu minority vote bank but all this was shattered with the US-backed mob uprising in July-August last year.

While the catalogue of barbaric crimes against the Hindu minorities under illegitimate rule of Yunus’s interim government defies a proper auditing , the latest killing of an innocent youth in broad daylight in Noakhali district area has come as a new shocker. Sources from Bangladesh said that Subrata Das (37), a Hindu government employee uninvolved in any political activity, had been going to office in Subarnachar area under Noakhali on October 14 around 10-00 in the morning. While moving along alone Subrata Das set upon by a Muslim armed gang that mercilessly hacked him to death without any rhyme or reason. After being taken to hospital Subrata was declared ‘brought dead’ and the gruesome daylight killing has sparked panic and tension among Hindus in the entire area.

Earlier on July 13 this year a Hindu business man, actually a scrap trader , Lal Chand Sohag (39) had been murdered with similar brutality in broad daylight on road in Mitford area of old Dhaka by a gang of alleged BNP supporters. The police in that case arrested 10 persons who are out on bail now and the BNP leadership of Dhaka summarily expelled all their supporters who had participated in the killing as part of the gang but this hardly eased the fear and panic among the minority Hindus in the country.

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