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violence">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Deganga_riots" title="2010 Deganga riots">2010 Deganga riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Hathazari_violence" title="2012 Hathazari violence">2012 Hathazari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Fatehpur_violence" title="2012 Fatehpur violence">2012 Fatehpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Chirirbandar_violence" title="2012 Chirirbandar violence">2012 Chirirbandar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence" title="2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Canning_riots" title="2013 Canning riots">2013 Canning riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Kaliachak_riots" title="2016 Kaliachak riots">2016 Kaliachak riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kha_Maung_Seik_massacre" title="Kha Maung Seik massacre">2017 Kha Maung Seik massacre</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#FF9933;padding-bottom:0.15em;color:white;"> Opposition</th></tr><tr><td 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The attacks on the Hindus began on 30 October and continued till 2 November.<sup id="cite_ref-azad_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azad-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1988, President <a href="/wiki/Hussain_Muhammad_Ershad" title="Hussain Muhammad Ershad">Hussain Muhammad Ershad</a>, had amended the Constitution of Bangladesh to declare <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> as the state religion of Bangladesh. In the fall of 1989, an anti-Hindu pogrom took place in Bangladesh, marked by widespread destruction of Hindu temples and violence against the Hindus, following the laying of foundation of Ram temple in faraway <a href="/wiki/Ayodhya" title="Ayodhya">Ayodhya</a> in Uttar Pradesh, India. The relations between the majority Muslims and minority Hindus remained tense and as the events unfolded in Ayodhya.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Babri_Mosque_conflict">Babri Mosque conflict</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Babri Mosque conflict"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 29 October, the <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Jamaat-e-Islami" title="Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami">Jamaat-e-Islami</a>-funded newspaper <i>The Daily Inqilab</i> ran a top story "Babri mosque destroyed".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (September 2013)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Tensions began to mount in the country after the publication of the rumour that <a href="/wiki/Babri_mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Babri mosque">Babri mosque</a> had been demolished. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dhaka">Dhaka</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Dhaka"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Old_Dhaka" title="Old Dhaka">Old Dhaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> protesters attempted to set fire to <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> temples which was foiled by the police. The demonstrators, however, seized the cameras of the newsmen outside the temple. The administrator imposed <a href="/wiki/Curfew" title="Curfew">curfew</a> in parts of <a href="/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a> following the incident. On 30 October, while President Hussain Muhammad Ershad was addressing a youth conference in <a href="/wiki/Bangabhaban" title="Bangabhaban">Bangabhavan</a>, Islamist mobs attacked the Gouri Math and set fire to Hindu-owned shops just to the south of <a href="/wiki/Bangabhavan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangabhavan">Bangabhavan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 31 October, about 1,000 Muslims allegedly marched to the Indian embassy in Dhaka.<sup id="cite_ref-ap31101990_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap31101990-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The curfew was extended to the entire city. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Lalbagh_Thana" title="Lalbagh Thana">Lalbagh</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dhakeshwari_Temple" title="Dhakeshwari Temple">Dhakeshwari Temple</a> and other buildings with the temple complex were looted, vandalised and set on fire. The residence of the priest and ten other Hindu families were looted, vandalised and set on fire. The priest saved his life by jumping over the wall of the temple complex. The arson continued for four hours.<sup id="cite_ref-azad_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azad-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Durga" title="Durga">Durga</a> temple at Lalbagh Road, the Girigovardhan Jiu temple at Pushparaj Saha Lane, Raghunath Jiu akhara at Haranath Ghosh Lane and the <a href="/wiki/Kamrangirchar" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamrangirchar">Kamrangirchar</a> crematorium at Lalbagh was looted and vandalised. More than 50 Hindu houses and shops were looted at vandalised at Lalbagh Road and Haranath Ghosh Road.<sup id="cite_ref-azad_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azad-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Hazaribagh_Thana" title="Hazaribagh Thana">Hazaribagh</a>, three Hindu temples in Bhagalpur Lane were attacked, looted and vandalised. The images were broken.<sup id="cite_ref-azad_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azad-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 17 Hindus were stabbed at Nagar Beltoli Lane. In Nagar Beltoli and Hazaribagh around 100 Hindu houses and shops and about a dozen Hindu temples were looted vandalised and set on fire.<sup id="cite_ref-azad_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azad-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Sutrapur_Thana" title="Sutrapur Thana">Sutrapur</a>, fourteen Hindu temples, akharas and mutts were attacked, looted, vandalised and set on fire. More than 100 Hindu shops and houses were looted and vandalised. In most cases they were set on fire.<sup id="cite_ref-azad_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azad-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chittagong">Chittagong</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Chittagong"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tension also began to mount in <a href="/wiki/Chittagong" title="Chittagong">Chittagong</a>, the second largest city of <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> with a 30% Hindu population.<sup id="cite_ref-ap01111990_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap01111990-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the evening of 30 October, trouble erupted in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-ap01111990_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap01111990-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Muslim mobs took to the streets in protest of the alleged demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya. The police fired in the air to disperse the crowd and imposed indefinite curfew in Chittagong.<sup id="cite_ref-ap31101990_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap31101990-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the midnight past 30 October, a 2,000 strong <a href="/wiki/Islamist" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamist">Islamist</a> mob armed with knives and iron rods rampaged through the residential area surrounding the <a href="/wiki/Kaivalyadhama_Health_and_Yoga_Research_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center">Kaibalyadham temple</a> and set fire to more than 300 Hindu homes. When the fire fighters arrived, the mob prevented them from entering the area.<sup id="cite_ref-ap31101990_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap31101990-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the midnight attacks, around 1,500 Hindu fishermen of <a href="/wiki/Chowkbazar_Thana" title="Chowkbazar Thana">Chowkbazar</a> fled their homes. A 200 strong mob tried to destroy temples and burn Hindu-owned shops in Reazuddin Bazar and <a href="/wiki/Chittagong_Medical_College" title="Chittagong Medical College">Chittagong Medical College</a>. 50 thatched huts of Hindu fishermen were destroyed. A Hindu-owned garage was attacked and five vehicles were damaged. On the dawn of 31 October, a group of 100 Islamists broke the curfew and desecrated a Hindu shrine.<sup id="cite_ref-ap31101990_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap31101990-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 2 November, the curfew was relaxed for a few hours to allow for the Friday prayers. A 500 strong Islamist mob, armed with knives and home made bombs attacked a Hindu village in the outskirts of Chittagong.<sup id="cite_ref-ap02111990_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap02111990-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around 100 Hindus were injured in separate incidents of violences in Patharganj, <a href="/wiki/Boalkhali" class="mw-redirect" title="Boalkhali">Boalkhali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anwara_Upazila" title="Anwara Upazila">Anwara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hathazari" class="mw-redirect" title="Hathazari">Hathazari</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ap02111990_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap02111990-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_places">Other places</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other places"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Anti-Hindu violence was reported from Dhaka and 12 other cities of Bangladesh.<sup id="cite_ref-ap02111990_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap02111990-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Ittefaq" title="The Daily Ittefaq">The Daily Ittefaq</a></i> reported incidents of anti-Hindu violences from <a href="/wiki/Jessore_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jessore (city)">Jessore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narail" title="Narail">Narail</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaibandha" title="Gaibandha">Gaibandha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mymensingh" title="Mymensingh">Mymensingh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sunamganj" title="Sunamganj">Sunamganj</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ap01111990_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap01111990-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Hindus displaced during the attacks on Pahartali in Chittagong, set up a refugee camp on a hill above the Kaibalyadham temple, where around 500 Hindus took shelter.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Searchlight" title="Operation Searchlight">Operation Searchlight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuknagar_massacre" title="Chuknagar massacre">Chuknagar massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jathibhanga_massacre" title="Jathibhanga massacre">Jathibhanga massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankharipara_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Shankharipara massacre">Shankharipara massacre</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Bangladesh" title="Freedom of religion in Bangladesh">Freedom of religion in Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a 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