Widespread Hindu genocide is unfolding in Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus’ interim regime. Backed by Islamist extremists, the government enables violent attacks, temple desecrations, and rapes. With global silence compounding the crisis, religious minorities face systemic persecution. Calls grow for democratic restoration and international intervention.
Since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the jihadist-backed coup of August 2024, Bangladesh has seen an alarming rise in anti-Hindu violence, fueling what rights groups and analysts are now calling a slow-moving genocide. Under the interim regime led by Muhammad Yunus, radical Islamic groups have not only regained political legitimacy but have also launched coordinated campaigns of violence and intimidation against religious minorities—primarily Hindus.
In just under a year, the violence has become systemic. Hindu homes and businesses have been looted and burned. Temples desecrated. Deities smashed. Community leaders abducted and murdered. Meanwhile, women and girls from the Hindu community have reportedly been subjected to mass-scale sexual violence and threats of forced conversion. The government, army, and police remain complicit or inactive—if not outright involved.
Yunus’ administration has emboldened extremist forces like Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI), Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), and the banned terror outfits Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Leaders of these groups are now seen openly in public spaces, rallying against secular values and inciting hatred against minorities. Shocking images surfaced in May 2025 of ABT’s Jashimuddin Rahmani and LeT’s Harun Izhar leading anti-Awami League rallies in Dhaka. The regime’s legal advisor, Asif Nazrul, was even seen meeting Izhar at the Law Ministry shortly after the Pahalgam terror attack in India.
These developments indicate a deliberate policy shift. Yunus has systematically undermined secularism and democratic representation by forming exclusionary reform committees devoid of Hindu and indigenous voices. His administration has used the Anti-Terrorism Act to suppress secular political leaders, while welcoming globally sanctioned terrorists into policymaking circles.
Violence on the ground reflects this shift. In June 2025, a historic Durga temple in Khilkhet was demolished without notice. A Hindu house in Maheshkhali’s Thakurtala village was torched by radicals. On April 17, Hindu leader Bhabesh Chandra Roy was abducted and killed in Dinajpur. In Aldadpur Balapara of Rangpur’s Gangachara, an entire Hindu neighborhood was attacked following false blasphemy claims—using loudspeakers to incite mobs in a method reminiscent of earlier pogroms.
The Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad (BHBCUC) recorded 260 attacks on religious minorities in just the first six months of 2025, including 28 murders, 20 rapes, and 60 attacks on religious sites. Property seizures are now common, and forced displacement is increasing. In Jessore’s Abhaynagar, Hindu homes were burned on May 22, again using fabricated blasphemy claims.
Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a prominent Vaishnavite leader and ex-ISKCON monk, has been jailed since late 2024 under sedition charges, his bail repeatedly denied. His only offense: speaking against the rising communal violence and representing the Hindu voice under the Sammilito Sanatani Jagaran Jote.
A damning factsheet released by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) last week corroborated these accounts, citing severe religious repression and a climate of fear that prevents minorities from publicly expressing their faith.
International silence, especially from major democracies and global human rights organizations, has been deafening. The calculated ethnic cleansing unfolding under Yunus echoes the brutal campaigns led by the Razakars during the 1971 Liberation War. The aim remains disturbingly similar: to erase Hindu identity and reshape Bangladesh into a hardline Islamist state.
According to independent human rights monitors, 1,930 people have been killed since the coup—making the interim government not only illegitimate but also one of the bloodiest in South Asian history. Calls are growing from within and outside Bangladesh for a return to democratic order, with protests erupting even in traditionally pro-regime strongholds.
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As Bangladesh descends into an abyss of jihadist violence, the world’s moral responsibility remains unfulfilled. If ignored, this could have devastating long-term consequences for regional stability, minority rights, and democratic integrity in South Asia.
