JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France expressed its concern over the recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the hill districts of Khagrachari and

By bno - Chennai Office Ethnic violence between indigenous Chakma and Bengali communities has intensified in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, leading to the deaths of at least four minority men and injuring dozens more in the Khagrachhari and Rangamati districts.

Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh’s southern hilly region are living in fear after clashes in which four people were killed and dozens wounded, police and witnesses said on Saturday. Sectarian violence,

By Thursday morning, Hossein, 35, was dead, the latest casualty in a wave of mob violence that has gripped Bangladesh since student protests ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and sent her fleeing the country last month.

At least nine people have been killed and 69 places of worship attacked across 68 districts in Bangladesh between August 4 and 20 in a spate of communal violence. Nirmal Rozario of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad called for a UN-led impartial investigation and raised concerns over the 1,

Although the population of Muslim-majority Bangladesh is only eight percent Hindu and less than one percent Christian, these small percentages don’t offer protection. Attackers recently targeted a Hindu family living near one of FMI’s national leaders.

The Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad (HBCOP), the largest organization of minorities in Bangladesh, has called on the United Nations to investigate communal violence against minorities in the country.

The violence was sparked by the lynching of a Bengali man, triggering retaliatory attacks and protests calling for justice.