On Sunday, July 6, 2025, Jamuna TV of Bangladesh reported that the Crematoriums of Native Hindu Rakahaine communities are now being forcefully and illegally occupied by local land grabbers. As is the case of most of the land grab attacks, the victims are Hindu by religion belonging to the Native “Rakhaine” people of Bangladesh whereas the land grabbers are Muslim by religion. The land grabbers have already occupied some houses and land properties of these native Hindu people and are now occupying the victim communities crematoriums.
The leaders of the Native Rakahine Hindu community termed these forceful illegal takeover of their land properties and crematoriums as a major human rights violation. The local government administration is yet to arrest the attackers or take any action to protect these vulnerable poor victims who represent the Hindu religious minorities in Bangladesh. The administration has offered meaningless and farcical verbal assurance to the victims saying that they would rescue the occupied crematoriums.
HUMAN RIGHTS ANALYSIS:
Not a single land grabber is arrested so far. Not a single police case is filed so far against the land grabber. Clearly, the mere verbal assurance is nothing less than a farcical tactic to further humiliate these poor rural native Hindu people by the government administration and law enforcement authorities. The fact that the government administration and law enforcement have so far FAILED to stop the land grabbers is an obvious clue that they are in fact collaborating with the attackers. This is not an isolated attack and this is not an isolated Hindu land forcibly and illegally occupied by Muslims. Visit Instagram post on another Hindu crematorium grabbing by Muslims in Palang Union of Sadar Upazila of Shariatpur district of Bangladesh in late 2024.
All forms of persecution including land grabbing of Hindu religious minorities across Bangladesh continue unabated since August 5, 2024 with full support from Dr. Muhammad Yunus led government. Hindus are living in fear in their own ancestral country as the government is directly and indirectly involved in denying the basic Human rights to Hindu people. We, the human rights activists at the HRCB, urge the Western leaders who are the protectors of the human rights of the world, to help save the persecuted Hindu people of Bangladesh.
Victims: Native Rakhaine Hindu people, Hindu religious minorities in Bangladesh.
Location of the occupied crematoriums and land:
- Patuakhali district, Barishal division, Bangladesh
- Barguna district, Barishal division, Bangladesh
Date of reporting by Jamuna TV: Sunday, July 6, 2025
News media: None
Social media: Facebook (Jamnua TV, Bangladesh)