Dr Barkat, who is head of the department
of economics at the University of Dhaka, was delivering a lecture at a
seminar on Rajshahi University in Bangladesh on July 17, 2016. The
seminar organised jointly by Bangladesh Economic Forum and Department of
Economics of the university was focused on poverty alleviation,
elimination of discrimination and economic development.
The Bangla economist clarified his views
stating that GDP and consideration economic development in current
parameters were unable to find any direct connection to change the
status of the economically vulnerable groups. In most of the cases, such
data deliverance did not any good for the minorities, tribal and
marginal people in Bangladesh.
Dr. Barkat pointed the regular
evacuation of the minorities, tribal and marginal people living in the
plain or hilly areas from their rights of lands, water bodies, and
forests.
Lashing out on the ‘The Enemy Property
(Custody and Registration) Act of 1965’ and its subsequent versions of
‘The East Pakistan Enemy Property (Lands and Buildings Administration
and Disposal Order of 1966)’, ‘The Enemy Property (Continuance of
Emergency Provision) Ordinance No. 1 of 1969, or the latest avatar of
it, ‘The Vested and Non-Resident Property (Administration) Act (XLVI of
1974)’, Dr Barkat said that all these acts and ordinances were
engineered to disown the rights of Hindu minority and other non-Muslims
from the soil of Bangladesh.
According to Dr. Barkat, 632 Hindus left
Bangladesh per day on an average in the last 49 years from 1964 to
2013. As per this calculation, about 11 million Hindus had left their
homes and hearths in Bangladesh and sought refuge mostly in India. The
reasons are obvious and related with Islamic brutality, persecution, and
discrimination.
The percentage of Hindus to the total
population in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1947 was 30. By 1991,
an estimated 20 million Hindus went “missing” from that country. Today,
Hindus are less than 9 percent of the total population in Bangladesh.
Political and religious violence
continued to plague Bangladesh throughout 2014 and the first half of
2015. Organizations like Jamat-e-Islami, Islamic Chhatra Shivir, and
Bangladesh National Party have been allegedly engaged in violent street
riots, forced economic blockades, and hartals besides conducting massive attacks on Hindu and other religious minorities and secular activists and bloggers.
The ruling Awami League government is
also responsible for the current unrest by repressing political dissent,
imposing restrictions on freedom of speech, and failing to protect
minority communities from violence. Moreover, security forces committed
widespread human rights abuses. (Source: Hindus in South Asia and the
Diaspora – A Survey of Human Rights 2014-2015 by HAF).
As a matter of fact, the Human Rights
issues in Bangladesh for the minority, tribal and marginal people are in
a very deplorable condition. The present government in Bangladesh,
ruling party Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina have
completely failed to give safety, security, and any comfort to the
vulnerable minority people in Bangladesh.
Islamic Bangladesh is growing fast as a Jihad-desh.
Taliban and ISIS goons are desperate to take the control of Bangladesh
in reality. Killing minorities, hacking the liberals, threatening
everybody at any point, attacking restaurants shouting Allah ho Akbar or imposing Sharia and Halal by government wings are the indicators of the future of Bangladesh.
According to ‘Hindu Existence’ majority
of these victims of persecution belong to so called low caste ‘Dalit’
Hindus. They are victimised by state-sponsored Islamic fundamentalists.
(Inputs from agencies)
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