{"id":99,"date":"2016-07-01T05:38:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hrcb.org\/?p=99"},"modified":"2016-07-01T05:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:38:04","slug":"another-hindu-priest-hacked-to-death-in-jhenaidah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/another-hindu-priest-hacked-to-death-in-jhenaidah\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Hindu priest hacked to death in Jhenaidah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp_ss_20160701_0001-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100\" alt=\"wp_ss_20160701_0001 (2)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp_ss_20160701_0001-2-300x175.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp_ss_20160701_0001-2-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/hrcb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp_ss_20160701_0001-2-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/hrcb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp_ss_20160701_0001-2.png 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Hindu priest has been killed in Jhenaidah, the murder resembling a similar assassination of another Hindu priest in the same district last month.<br \/>\nShyamananda Das, 50, was serving the Radha Madan Gopal Temple in Uttar Kastasagara village at Sadar Upazila for the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Three motorcycle-borne killers hacked him down early\u00a0on Friday, exactly like the murder of priest Ananda Gopal Ganguly last month in the same Upazila.<\/p>\n<p>Jhenaidah SP Sheikh Altaf Hossain said this murder resembles similar killings elsewhere in the country, where motorcycle-borne militants shot and hacked down secular bloggers, publishers, writers, Hindu priests, Buddhist monks, Christian pastors and even foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting an eyewitness, a woman, Hossain said the murder occurred around\u00a05:20am\u00a0Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shyamananda was picking flowers for puja just outside the temple when three assailants approached him on a motorcycle and hacked him down,&#8221; Hossain said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To make sure he died, they rained multiple blows to his head with sharp weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The temple&#8217;s treasurer Prabhash Kumar said Das hailed from Musuridanga village in Narhail Sadar Upazila.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came to serve this temple three years ago. He had no enmity with anyone.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn Jun 7, Hindu priest Ananda Gopal Ganguly, 69, had been murdered in identical fashion in Jhenaidah Sadar\u2019s Mahishdanga village.<\/p>\n<p>US monitoring group SITE said the Islamic State had owned up the murder of Ganguly.<\/p>\n<p>But local police says his killers are linked to Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student affiliate of the Jamaat-e-Islami.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say the killing of Hindu religious leaders in Bangladesh is a focussed attempt to trigger a Hindu exodus to India and create misunderstanding between the two governments at a time when bilateral relations between Delhi and Dhaka is at its peak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These killings are political more than they are religious,&#8221; said Bangladesh watcher Sukharanjan Dasgupta.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/m.bdnews24.com\/en\/detail\/bangladesh\/1176807<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hindu priest has been killed in Jhenaidah, the murder resembling a similar assassination of another Hindu priest in the same district last month. Shyamananda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attack-on-hindu-minorities","category-hindu-minorities-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}