Pictures from Bangladesh like from a horror film! A Hindu teenager took refuge in a police station – there he was lynched by an angry Islamist mob in front of the officers. The reason: the young man had allegedly made derogatory comments about the Prophet Mohammed on the Internet! The police watched idly and did not intervene.
The military also claims: Soldiers rescued the young man from the angry mob – he survived and was handed over to the police. Afterwards, “3,000 to 3,500 people gathered at the police station in Khulna (southern Bangladesh) and riots broke out.”
An Islamist mob lynched the teenager. He lies bleeding on the ground
Foto: Voice of Bangladeshi Hindus/X
However, users on X contradict the military information: the young man was killed in the lynching attack! There is also contradiction to the official age of the lynched man: he is said to have been between 15 and 18 years old, not 22.
It is another case of Islamist terror against the Hindu minority in Bangladesh. Recently, attacks on people and arson attacks on Hindu temples have been reported again and again. Unverified videos have been circulating on X for weeks – they are said to show looting, vandalism and even lynching violence against the minority.
In the capital Dhaka, a university burns during student protests in August
Photo: Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto/picture alliance
Bangladesh is a predominantly Muslim country. Only one in ten people are followers of the Hindu religious group. The East Asian country of 170 million is currently experiencing a change of power: after bloody student protests that left hundreds dead, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to flee to neighboring India, leaving her Hindu supporters behind. Critics say the flight and the change of power have opened the door to Islamist violence.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and interim Prime Minister Muhammed Yunus (84) sees no reason for alarm – the reports of atrocities are “exaggerated”
Photo: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP
However, the Muslim interim head of government and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus (84) sees the situation as unproblematic. In regional media reports He describes the descriptions of violence as “exaggerated”. It is an attempt by the neighboring country India to drag Bangladesh and its new leadership through the mud.
Background: India is predominantly Hindu. Many X-accounts reporting on the alleged atrocities originate from India.
