A few weeks ago, after Friday prayers, a mob of more than 3,000 people attacked the house of Sadhanchandra Mandal, a Hindu, in southwestern Bangladesh.
“They attacked our houses shouting slogans such as ... ''We are the Taliban, this Bengal will be Afghan', and looted everything," said 60-year-old Mandal, who said the attackers used petrol and weapons in the assault against his home.
"I don't understand how we will survive here - anytime I will be killed, as they are threatening me."
Mandal said the police and a paramilitary battalion did nothing to stop the crowd from attacking houses in the remote villages of the Satkhira district where he lives.
"My wife and daughter-in-law with her two kids saved their lives by swimming across a pond," Mandal told Al Jazeera. "We are still not safe.”
The South Asian nation has been caught up in turmoil ever since two war crimes tribunals sentenced several public figures for atrocities committed during the country's liberation war from Pakistan in 1971, and it is members of the minority community like Mandal who have borne the brunt of the violence. Full story...
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“They attacked our houses shouting slogans such as ... ''We are the Taliban, this Bengal will be Afghan', and looted everything," said 60-year-old Mandal, who said the attackers used petrol and weapons in the assault against his home.
"I don't understand how we will survive here - anytime I will be killed, as they are threatening me."
Mandal said the police and a paramilitary battalion did nothing to stop the crowd from attacking houses in the remote villages of the Satkhira district where he lives.
"My wife and daughter-in-law with her two kids saved their lives by swimming across a pond," Mandal told Al Jazeera. "We are still not safe.”
The South Asian nation has been caught up in turmoil ever since two war crimes tribunals sentenced several public figures for atrocities committed during the country's liberation war from Pakistan in 1971, and it is members of the minority community like Mandal who have borne the brunt of the violence. Full story...
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