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run towards safety. The attackers then broke open their houses and looted their valuables, including jewelry, garments, land deeds and other valuable documents. They also snatched the jewelry box from Lalita Sardar. After securing the loot in safe havens, the miscreants doused the houses in petrol and set them on fire. The houses of 10 Hindu families were looted and set on fire. The loot and arson took place in the presence of the police. The fire brigade was blocked from entering into the area until the houses were completely burnt. The
District Magistrate, District Superintendent of Police, the Additional D.I.G. (Khulna Range) and RAB officers arrived at night and tried to bring things under control.
726:. People began to gather in the Sardar residence. In the evening, Firoz Kabir Kajal, the president of Nazimganj Bazar Committee arrived at their house along local Union Parishad members. They began to pressurize Lalita to publicly apologize for her blasphemous remarks. During this meeting about two hundred youths from nearby villages gathered near their house and threatened to kick the family and send them to India. At around 7
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Kaliganj Upazila. The outsiders gathered around the houses of the minority Hindus and began to pelt stones and brick bats in their houses. The Hindu men, women and children fearing for their lives, began to
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Fatehpur High School and Fatehpur Government Primary School with sticks, iron rods and machetes. Then they attacked the houses of Shahinur Rahman and his three brothers and set them on fire. In the Banshtala market, they set fire to the shop of Abdul Hakim Sardar, a member of
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protested against the persecution. Bangladeshi media highlighted this event. Students of Dhaka
University Jagannath Hall staged demonstrations putting up barricades on Shahbag-Matsya Bhaban road on Thursday, 5 April 2012 morning. Nearly 500 students brought out a procession from their dormitory in
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Wednesday night, the students blocked Elephant-Matsya Bhaban road for an hour on the same issue. Bangladesh Hindu Mohajot also protested against the incident.
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Parishad member Abu Jafar Sanpui filed a case with Kaliganj police station accusing a dramatist, a headmaster and an assistant headmaster. Police arrested the headmaster and the assistant teacher and send them to jail.
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canceled declaration of the daily drishtipat because of provocating the attack on Hindu families and failure to answer show cause order of the High Court.
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in the university degree courses. Three days later, on 29 March 2012, Dainik
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1159:[Kaliganj two of the three arrested people are still terrified].
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the morning and later took position at Shahbagh around 10:30
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Persecution of atheists and secularists in Bangladesh
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On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 District Commissioner of
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1041:"Teachers Arrested for Blasphemy in Bangladesh"
880:Persecution of indigenous peoples in Bangladesh
663:the students of Fatehpur High School staged a
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1195:(in Bengali). April 11, 2012. Archived from
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1219:"DU teachers ask govt to free the detained"
1163:(in Bengali). April 8, 2012. Archived from
1106:(in Bengali). April 1, 2012. Archived from
1074:(in Bengali). April 4, 2012. Archived from
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840:1990 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence
683:remarks about the Islamic prophet,
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186:Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh
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944:Rahman, Mizanur (April 3, 2012).
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1225:. April 12, 2012. Archived from
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823:Shankharipara massacre
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1270:21st-century Hinduism
808:Operation Searchlight
591:Nidarabad murder case
371:Religious intolerance
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1199:on February 22, 2014
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952:The Daily Janakantha
818:Jathibhanga massacre
505:Jathibhanga massacre
241:2016 Kaliachak riots
181:Marichjhapi massacre
1285:Arson in Bangladesh
1110:on January 31, 2013
1078:on January 31, 2013
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540:Satanikhil massacre
520:Krishnapur massacre
515:Ketnar Bil massacre
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