Survey: 50% of minorities anxious, 25% feeling unsafe under Yunus’ mobocracy

As Bangladesh hurtles toward its rigged February 12 sham elections under the jihadist-patronising despot Muhammad Yunus, a damning survey exposes the regime’s willful blindness to minority repression: over 50% of religious minorities are gripped by anxiety, and more than 25% feel utterly unsafe in their own homes.

Yet Yunus’ Islamist-backed cabal refuses to acknowledge the blood-soaked reality, let alone prosecute the jihadist perpetrators or cough up a dime in compensation for the victims they’ve left shattered. This fascist denial isn’t ignorance—it’s a calculated strategy to let communal carnage fester, ensuring minorities cower and stay away from the polls while Yunus’ extremist allies like Jamaat-e-Islami consolidate their hateful grip.

The Centre for Governance Studies (CGS) survey, released on February 8 during a Dhaka event, polled 505 minority community members and laid bare the terror Yunus’ regime pretends doesn’t exist.

Over half expressed deep concern about voting amid the regime’s orchestrated chaos, while a quarter labelled themselves “unsafe” or “extremely unsafe”—a chilling echo of Bangladesh’s dark history where post-election pogroms have repeatedly targeted minorities.

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Economist Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, speaking at the launch, skewered Yunus’ interim dictatorship: “Their capacity and potential are exhausted. All they can do now is hold a fair election—but it’s woefully non-inclusive.” He demanded real participation for women, minorities, and dissenters, slamming the regime’s exclusionary farce that leaves vulnerable groups exposed to jihadist violence without recourse.

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Adding fuel to the fire, a Deutsche Welle (DW) report paints a harrowing picture of how Yunus’ jihadist-patron regime has turned minority lives into a nightmare since the August 2024 coup. Families reeling from recent attacks describe sudden, savage violence with zero protection from Yunus’ complicit authorities, who gaslight the nation by insisting most incidents are “unrelated to communal tensions.”

Rights advocates document a surge in intimidation against Hindus, Christians, and Ahmadiyya Muslims, but Yunus’ minions bury the truth, refusing to investigate, prosecute thugs, or provide any compensation—leaving victims destitute and displaced.

With security in shambles under Yunus’ watch, minorities tell DW they no longer feel safe in their neighborhoods, as political uncertainty strips them of their traditional secular ally, the banned Awami League. Forced to navigate a toxic landscape dominated by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami’s sharp, divisive rhetoric, even some Islamic groups report being singled out.

As the vote looms, the burning question isn’t electoral winners—it’s whether Yunus’ successor regime will bother ensuring minorities’ survival or continue the patronising of jihadists who butcher with impunity.

Prof. Robaet Ferdous Rages

Dhaka University professor Robaet Ferdous didn’t hold back in his February 9 blistering critique, accusing Yunus’ jihadist-propped tyranny of trapping minorities in a “double paradox” and reducing them to “permanent second-class citizens.” Fresh from surveying torched homes in Chittagong’s Rauzan and Mirsarai—where at least 19 Hindu residences were firebombed to terrorise voters—Ferdous thundered: “Houses locked and set ablaze not for loot, but to instil fear and keep them from the polls.”

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Damned if they vote (facing retaliation) or don’t (smeared as boycotters), minorities beg for divine justice amid Yunus’ bribery-riddled law enforcement failures.

This echoes the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (BHBCOP)’s February 7 scathing press release, which blasted major parties like BNP for ignoring minority rights in manifestos, omitting safeguards for secularism and religious freedom—a deliberate betrayal under Yunus’ watch. BHBCOP condemned BNP’s Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for downplaying violence as “political issues,” eroding any trust in safety pledges. “This ruthless neglect dashes hopes and threatens survival,” they snarled, holding parties accountable for potential low turnout.

Citizens for Human Rights’ February 8 press conference amplified the fury, with Chief Executive Zakir Hossain detailing the savagery: “Attackers aimed to incinerate families alive; now locals vigil with CCTV in desperation.” They demanded special security, swift arrests, compensation, rehabilitation, mental health aid, and Human Rights Commission oversight—demands Yunus’ regime ignores, complicit in voter suppression.

A Bloody Legacy Of Denial

This outcry builds on a grotesque tapestry of atrocities under Yunus’ jihadist patronage, where repression is denied, perpetrators walk free, and victims get nothing but empty words. BHBCOP’s January 30 report tallied 522 communal incidents in 2025: 66 murders, 28 rapes/gang rapes, 95 temple attacks, 102 home/business assaults, and 66 evictions—spilling into 2026 with 42 more by late January, including 11 killings and 9 temple desecrations. Yunus’ sycophants dismiss it as “neighbour disputes,” shielding jihadists while arresting Hindu leaders like ISKCON’s Chinmoy Krishna Das on trumped-up charges.

Horrors include Mymensingh’s Dipu Chandra Das lynched and burned over false blasphemy; Gopalganj’s Piyas Majumdar suffocated; Dinajpur’s Bhavesh Chandra Roy was beaten to death; Rajbari’s Amrit Mandal was mob-lynched. Yunus’ regime grants de facto immunity, forcing advocates like Rana Dasgupta into hiding. Backed by Jamaat radicals, this pogrom rigs polls by diluting secularism and smearing minorities as Awami loyalists, slashing turnout through “systematic rural terror,” as analyst Altaf Parvez decries.

India protests Yunus’ “disturbing pattern” of whitewashing, but BHBCOP’s demands—banning communal appeals, army deployment, and hate speech prosecution—fall on deaf ears. Activist Ranjan Karmaker fumes: “This isn’t democracy; it’s genocide by proxy.”