{"id":21518,"date":"2024-10-15T21:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=21518"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:19:14","slug":"hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-their-largest-festival-under-tight-security-following-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/10\/15\/hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-their-largest-festival-under-tight-security-following-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus in Bangladesh Celebrate Their Largest Festival Under Tight Security Following Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 14, 2024 (Religion News):  Schoolteacher Supriya Sarker is glad to celebrate Bangladesh\u2019s largest Hindu festival of Durga Puja but feels the festivities would be more jubilant without the fear and violence that overshadow this year\u2019s event. The weeklong celebration that ends in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh on Sunday with immersions of the Hindu Goddess has strained the Hindu community with reports of vandalism, violence and intimidation in parts of Bangladesh, which has seen harassment and attacks on Hindus, who make up about 8% of the country\u2019s nearly 170 million people, or more than 13 million people. Despite pledges to keep the festival safe, this year\u2019s version was subdued following the ousting of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and attacks on minority groups, especially Hindus. Hasina left the country for India because of a mass uprising spearheaded by a student-led anti-government movement.<br><br>Bangladesh\u2019s current interim leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, has faced serious challenges in maintaining law and order since he took over in August, and Durga Puja was seen as an acid test of his administration\u2019s ability to protect minorities. \u201cIt is a challenging time for us Hindus,\u201d said Sarker, the schoolteacher, as she joined the Kumari Puja in Dhaka\u2019s Uttara district. \u201cWe faced problems in the past as well, but we did not see such escalation earlier. This is our country, we want to live here peacefully with our Muslim brothers and sisters and others without discrimination or intimidation.\u201d Her concern comes as the country\u2019s leading minority rights group, the Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Unity Council, said that between Aug. 4 and 20, a total of 2,010 incidents of communal violence targeting minorities, mostly Hindus, were reported. <br><br>More at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2024\/10\/14\/hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-their-largest-festival-under-tight-security-following-attacks\/\n\">https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2024\/10\/14\/hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-their-largest-festival-under-tight-security-following-attacks\/<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 14, 2024 (Religion News): Schoolteacher Supriya Sarker is glad to celebrate Bangladesh\u2019s largest Hindu festival of Durga,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21524,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518\/revisions\/21524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}