Bangladesh violence: Police arrest second suspect in reference to assaults on Hindus

Bangladesh’s safety companies on Saturday arrested a person in his 30s, who’s believed to be the second key suspect behind the latest slew of violence towards Hindus and mob assaults on temples in Bangladesh throughout the Durga Puja festivities, police officers mentioned.

Shaikat Mandal, one of many masterminds behind the October 17 mayhem in Pirganj sub-district of northwestern Rangpur, and his confederate was arrested from Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka on Saturday, Elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officers mentioned.Mandal had gone reside on Facebook, which incited individuals and triggered a wave of violence, a RAB official mentioned.At least 70 homes and retailers of the Hindus had been torched in assaults at Pirganj following Mandal’s Facebook put up on October 17.His arrest comes a day after police had nabbed Iqbal Hossain, 35, the important thing suspect from Cox Bazar space, and the person who had allegedly positioned the Quran at a Durga Puja venue in Cumilla.Hossain is at present positioned underneath a seven-day police remand as different safety and intelligence companies would be part of to interrogate him.So far, police have arrested almost 600 individuals from varied components of the nation for inciting violence towards the Hindus throughout the Durga Puja festivities.In a associated improvement, Mohammad Fayez, who was charged underneath Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act (DSA) for inciting individuals through social media was despatched to jail on Friday night, the Daily Star newspaper reported.Meanwhile, members of minority non secular communities staged a mass-hunger and sit-in demonstration at central Dhaka’s Shabagh space and different components of the nation underneath the banner of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council.”Several thousand people have joined the mass-hunger and sit-in protests in Dhaka’s Shabagh, Andarkilla of south-eastern port city of Chattogram and other parts of the country,” Council’s joint secretary Monindra Kumar Nath advised the media.Nath mentioned numerous social and cultural teams and followers of the Islamic religion have additionally joined the rallies to precise their solidarity with the members of the minority communities.The assaults on the Hindus in Bangladesh have been broadly condemned by the United Nations.Mia Seppo, the UN’s resident coordinator in Bangladesh, mentioned in a Twitter put up on Monday that the assaults on Hindus are towards the values of the Bangladesh structure and must cease.On Tuesday, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instructed her residence minister to provoke speedy motion towards those that incited violence utilizing faith as she requested the individuals to not belief something on social media with out fact-checking.The Foreign Ministry in an announcement underlined that the Government of Bangladesh “unequivocally condemned those incidents and took serious note of the reactions from within and outside the Hindu community.”Hindus represent round 10 per cent of the Muslim-majority Bangladesh’s 169 million inhabitants.ALSO READ | Freedom of faith is human proper: US condemns assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh