A pre-planned and organized attack was carried out against Buddhist
minority in Ramu, Cox’s Bazaar district, Bangladesh on Saturday night.
The attack set ablaze or destroyed more than a dozen temples and
monasteries and at least 50 homes. Besides, property was looted,
including statues of the Buddha. According to Bangladesh media, the
attack was in apparent retaliation for a picture of a burned Quran holy
text tagged on the Facebook account of a Bangladeshi Buddhist called
Uttam Barua by a Facebook ID “Insult Allah.”
Unsurprisingly, Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir told reporters in
Dhaka that "Rohingyas and political opponents of the government were
also involved in the attacks." But how far is it true and believable?
When you go inside and think deeply of Bangladesh political patterns,
you will not be surprised but rather shocked. The whole attack was
engineered by special Indian Intelligence Unit of Research and Analysis
Wing (RAW) in coordination with Directorate General of Forces
Intelligence (DGFI) under an operation named “Operation Tango.”
Sheikh Hasina had known the whole game plot in advance to the violence.
She had been briefed by the intelligence that the violence would help
her to get the sympathy of Bangladesh minorities and hence they would
become her vote bank in the election next year. She was also briefed
that she could not take advantage over Rohingya issue politically
because BNP is also of the same stand with her party over the issue.
Therefore, it is the most proper time to carry out the attacks in the
name of retaliation to the defaming Quran on Facebook as her opposition
parties are protesting over anti-Islam movie and hence differing stands
from her party.
The attacks will not stop here. There will be many more attacks against
the minorities coming and organized media to run a continuous news
propaganda naming the violence as an effort to Islamize the hill area
and the opposition parties specifically BNP is behind the communal
attack.[1]
Ridiculously, Sheikh Hasina who is attending UN General Assembly in US
ordered the government to tighten the security and to protect the
minority. She seems to be a perfect student of Burmese tyrannical and
cunning regime.
Many more similarities can be found besides these. But the differences
are the political context and the level of freedom between Burma and
Bangladesh. While in Burma, the main opposition has no power and stands
over the violence in the violence against Rohingyas especially its
leader DASSK, in Bangladesh, the main opposition party BNP has its own
great political power and can speak up. While in Burma, Arakan is locked
region where International national media and independent observers
can’t get free access to, it is quite opposite in Bangladesh as it is a
democratic country.
Unfortunately, Rohingyas, a voiceless and defenseless people, has become
a football who is getting kicked from net to net in the political match
of Bangladesh and Burma. They are again unfairly and without any
evidence dragged into the affairs of the violence by the Bangladesh
government. It is known to the world that Bangladesh has pushed back the
escaping Rohingya victims of Arakan violence. Those who managed to
sneak into Bangladesh have no legal status to move around. In such
situation, one should wonder how they would dare attack those minority
people who have legal status in Bangladesh, which might exaggerate the
violence against them in Arakan. Bangladesh government should stop
playing insane and rather play good human beings.
While the ruling governments in both Burma and Bangladesh playing filthy
political games, minorities in the countries are paying high cost.
Therefore, any kind of victimization or scapegoating of and violence
against minorities whether politically or economically, no matter who or
where they are, must be condemned and be brought to the end.
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