New York: While asking Bangladesh authorities to protect Hinduism, Human Rights Watch International Group (HRW) has said law enforcement must act “carefully and resist”.
“The authorities need to increase violence, not firing ammunition directly into the crowd,” said Asia Director HRW Brad Adams in a statement issued by the group here.
“The Bangladesh authority deals with a very tense situation that can easily increase into more bloodshed, unless the law enforcement acts carefully and holds back,” he added.
HRW’s statement did not identify or corrode those who carried out Hindu attacks in Bangladesh, but turned to India it was said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had “asked the Government of Narendra Modi to extinguish communal violence in India, where the ruling party had triggered violence.
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However, HRW acknowledged that “Hinduism, which formed around 10 percent of the population of the majority of Bangladesh Muslims, repeatedly came in attacks”.
“Since the first attack, the horde has burned dozens of Hindu homes and temporary temples and sculptures throughout the country.” HRW’s statement quoted a Bangladesh Human Rights Group, Ain O Salish Kendra, as reported that “at least 3,679 attacks on the Hindu community since January 2013, including vandalism, combustion, and targeted violence” has occurred.
Adams said that Hasina “faced a critical moment to show the words and actions that he was serious about his party’s commitment to democracy and human rights” and “his call to end violence must lead to transparent investigations and real legal protection for the Hindu community in Bangladesh” .
The statement said that “the authorities reportedly submitted at least 71 cases in connection with violence and capturing 450 people” and added that Hasina “has promised strong actions, no one will belong to religion.” Reserves a call to withstand law enforcement, HRW said: “The basic principles of the United Nations about the use of strength and firearms by law enforcement officials state that security forces must be ‘apply a way without violence before using the use of strength and firearms,’ and that whenever use legitimate strength and firearms cannot be avoided, law enforcement officials must: (a) refrain from such use and act proportionally with the seriousness of violations and legitimate goals to achieve; (b) damage and injury, and respect and preserve life man ‘.
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