Awami League Accuses Interim Government Of Enabling Systematic Persecution Of Minorities

Bangladesh’s Awami League has launched a scathing attack on the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, expressing grave concern over what it claims is a ‘brutal and systematic campaign of minority persecution’ over the past year.

The party cited over 2,442 documented attacks on minority communities under Yunus’s leadership. They alleged that these acts were ‘ignored, enabled, or even supported by the state’.

Taking to the social media platform X, the party posted, “August 5 wasn’t a turning point. It was a green light. In just 16 days, ethnic cleansing swept the country. And the world? Still applauds Yunus. The genocide of 1971 was supposed to be our last. But under Yunus, it has returned.”

The Awami League questioned whether Bangladesh remains the same nation. It described the country as having turned into a ‘Taliban state in disguise’.

According to the party, “From August 2024 to August 2025, what has occurred in Bangladesh surpasses even the atrocities committed by Pakistani forces during 1971. Under the direct patronage and protection of the Yunus regime, a coordinated campaign of religious cleansing, ethnic persecution, and planned genocide of minority communities has taken place across the country.”

Incidents of Violence Detailed Across Districts

Detailing specific incidents, the party reported violence against Hindus in various districts:

• In Barishal, a Hindu family was assaulted and threatened with death,
• In Habiganj, college student Monpriya Sarkar went missing, and
• In Cumilla, a Hindu woman was gang-raped

In Khilkhet, security forces reportedly demolished a Durga temple. In Thakurgaon, idols were desecrated, temples set on fire, and the community driven into exile.

The Awami League further alleged, “Qawmi madrasas teach hate, Army officers mock Hindu chants, police whisper genocide, temples are now tombs and belief is now a battlefield.”

They further described Bangladesh as having turned into ‘a graveyard for its minorities’. The party claimed that the unrest of the previous year had escalated into ‘organised religious cleansing’.

“The Yunus government’s rule has marked the rise of a cruel, communal state, where being a minority is a crime, and religious identity itself evokes terror. Over this past year, minorities have been subjected to planned and continuous terror: fanatics have attacked temples, raped women, abducted girls, burned homes—all while the state remained monstrously silent,” the party added.

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