Bangladesh has been on fire for more than a year because of anarchist mobs destroying the property of the minority communities and spreading hate against Hindus and India. The Yunus regime, which is backed by the Jamaat-ISI, supports and encourages all of these groups, putting the minorities in constant fear of reprisals throughout the year, especially during the Durga Puja festivities.
The pro-Jamaat administration, the allies of the regime, including Yunus-backed National Citizen Party (NCP) and Hefazat-e-Islam, and the pro-Pakistani section of the Bangladesh Army have remained active to implement the ISI-designed blueprint since the fall of the secularist Awami League government last year.
As per media reports, the improved diplomatic and commercial relations between Pakistan and Bangladesh are part of a strategy to exert pressure on India from both the east and the west.
Their primary objective is to undermine the Bangladesh Army, establish militant suicide squads, and train combatants among the Rohingya and the stranded Pakistanis in preparation for attacks on India’s Seven Sisters and West Bengal.
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The implementation of the ISI blueprint is being coordinated by three top officials of the Bangladesh Army who have received assistance from the ISI, including Lt. Gen. Kamrul Hasan and Lt. Gen. Faizur Rahman. Additionally, retired and sacked officers, such as Brig. Gen. (Retd.) Abdullahil Amaan Azmi, the son of war criminal Ghulam Azam, and Major (sacked) Syed Ziaul Haque, are involved.
The radical Islamists, also known as Touhidi Janata, have been enjoying impunity for hundreds of attacks since the collapse of the secularist Awam League government. Consequently, attacks on shrines, temples, churches, and households of minority communities will persist as part of the plan.
In the interim, jihadists affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islam, Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish, Qawmi madrasa-based platform Hefazat-e-Islam, and banned militant groups such as Ansar al-Islam, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Jamaโatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) have been distributing hatred toward India and training fighters to engage in jihad in West Bengal and the Seven Sisters.
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The jihadists in India and Myanmar are openly receiving support from Al-Qaeda operatives Jasimuddin Rahmani, Syed Zia, and a number of militants who have walked out of jail on bail since last year. This is due to the fact that they have obtained a significant number of weapons that were looted from police stations and those that were transported from Pakistan.
The Bangladeshi authorities have already been cautioned by intelligence sources, various countries, and some international media about the imminent peril of an increase in extremism.
Durga Puja crowds
Sources say the Bangladeshi jihadists are now planning attacks with bombs and guns across Bangladesh during the Durga Puja, starting September 28, when hundreds of thousands of people join the festivities.
In some selected pavilions, the Touhidi Janata will be present in police uniform and will be looking for leaders and workers of the Awami League. These fake police members will allow mobs to launch attacks on the puja venues to stir tension.
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During the attacks, officials of the local army camps and police stations will lend support to the perpetrators or remain onlookers, as seen in many events since last year.
For the attacks in Indiaโs West Bengal and the Seven Sisters, the Bangladeshi jihadists are working in collusion with the Pakistani militant groups, like Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the ISI-backed military officers.
While LeT is linked to Ansar al-Islam and Hefazat-e-Islam, the TTP is closely working with the Jamaโatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya.
Sources say trained members of the suicide squads will enter India via the Chittagong Hill Tracts and Nepal, where the highly sophisticated bombs are being made in hidden camps along the border areas. The covert operatives of JMB, Ansar al-Islam, LeT and TTP, who are active in West Bengal and the Seven Sisters, are in the squads.
Free rein for fanatics
The Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad (BHBCOP) and the Minority Unity Front have documented the incidents of attacks on minorities.
In July, the BHBCOP reported a total of 2,442 incidents of violence against religious and ethnic minorities that occurred in 330 days, from August 4 to June 30. The highest number of incidents of violence took place from August 4 to August 20 of last year, with 2,100 attacks on houses, business establishments, and temples.
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In addition, 132 incidents of violence occurred from August 21 to December 31 of last year. From the beginning of this year to June 30, at least 258 incidents of violence occurred.
During this period, there were 27 murders, 20 cases of torture/rape/gang rape of women, 59 cases of attacks, vandalism, looting, and arson on places of worship, 21 cases of arrest and torture on charges of alleged blasphemy, 87 cases of attacks, vandalism, looting, and arson on houses and businesses, 12 cases of forced occupation of houses, land, and businesses, four cases of physical torture and forced resignation, 12 cases of attacks and torture on indigenous people, and 16 cases of obstruction of religious ceremonies, kidnapping, and others.
The BHBCOP lamented that, without giving any importance to the incidents related to communal violence, the Yunus-led interim government has adopted the strategy of denying the allegations as false, exaggerated, and fabricated.
Meanwhile, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has said that despite constitutional guarantees, Bangladesh maintains a blasphemy law under section 195A of the Penal Code. Provisions in the Cyber Security Act 2023 that criminalise content deemed to hurt religious sentiments, and these offences carry penalties of up to two years in prison.
Although the interim government condemned attacks on minority communities, the USCIRF pointed to a lack of accountability, attributing it partly to a “collapse of the law enforcement system” in a report in July.
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Hindu, indigenous, Ahmadiyya, and Sufi Muslim communities continue to report discrimination. It said fears of religiously motivated violence persist with national elections due early next year, but the authorities have yet to outline a comprehensive strategy beyond increased police deployment.
The USCIRF said that religious minorities reported being excluded from the reform process and underrepresented in politics and state institutions.
The Women’s Reform Commission proposed 433 recommendations to combat discrimination against women. However, groups like Hefazat-e-Islam labelled the proposals “anti-Islamic” and staged protests. More broadly, some women have complained of more public displays of conservative Islamic views on university campuses, the report said.
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