🇧🇩🕉🔥📹 — On November 1, 2024 AD, thousands of Bangladeshi Hindus took the streets of Chittagong in Southeastern Bangladesh to protest the Anti-Hindu violence and destruction of Hindu Temples by mobs of Muslims and Islamists tied to the Muslim Brotherhood branches of Bangladesh

➡️ About 30,000 Hindus demonstrated at a major intersection in the southeastern city of Chattogram, chanting slogans demanding their rights while police and soldiers guarded the area. Other protests were reported elsewhere in the country.

➡️ Hindu groups say there have been thousands of attacks against Hindus since early August, when the India-leaning Socialist & Secular government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was overthrown and Hasina fled the country following a student-led uprising

➡️ Hindus make up about 8% of the country’s nearly 170 million people, while Muslims are about 91%.

➡️ The country’s influential minority group Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council has said there have been more than 2,000 attacks on Hindus since Aug. 4, as the interim government has struggled to restore order.

➡️ Hindus and other minority communities say the interim government hasn’t adequately protected them and that hard-line Islamists are becoming increasingly influential since Hasina’s toppling.

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