In the first half of 2025, Bangladesh has witnessed 258 incidents of violence towards the minority communities, the largest minority group of Bangladesh has stated on Thursday (July 10, 2025). In a press convention in the National Press Club of Dhaka, Bangladesh Hindu Bouddho Christian Oikyo Parishad stated the interim authorities has not been in a position to cease violence towards religious minority communities and that the inaction of the authorities has emboldened the miscreants finishing up these attacks.
“The government has denied occurrence of communal violence by describing them as political incidents. As a result, the perpetrators of these crimes have become emboldened increasing the insecurity of the minority religious communities,” a press assertion from the Bangladesh Hindu Bouddho Christian Oikyo Parishad enumerating 258 crimes dedicated throughout the first six months of 2025.
Out of the whole incidents, the Parishad stated there have been 20 incidents of rape, 59 attacks on the locations of worship. The report counted 12 attacks on the adivasi communities of Bangladesh. “Between 4 August 2024 and 31 December 2024, there were 2184 violent incidents targeting minority communities of Bangladesh. This year so far, there have been 258 incidents. That means since last 4 August till now, there have been 2442 incidents of violence against the minority religious communities of Bangladesh,” stated the organisation in its press word.
“After the change of government in 2024, communal attacks started in Bangladesh with a new intensity. These barbaric incidents have continued till now,” stated the group accusing the interim authorities led by Prof Mohammed Yunus of inaction. The Bangladesh Hindu Bouddho Christian Oikyo Parishad which is the oldest group of the minority religious communities in Bangladesh began in the backdrop of rising communal incidents in the early Nineteen Sixties and has been vocal about the security necessities of the minority teams in the nation.
“We have noted with regret that the government has adopted the strategy of describing communal violence as concocted lies,” stated the Bangldesh Hindu Bouddho Christian Oikyo Parishad noting that in the end as a result of of rising public stress, the interim authorities on 10 December 2024 acknowledged that the minority communities have been attacked. “Already 70 individuals are under arrest in 88 cases of violence,” stated the press assertion. The interim authorities of Bangladesh is but to answer the report from the Bangladesh Hindu Bouddho Christian Oikyo Parishad.
