At a time when every Indian is worried about the well-being of Hindus in neighboring Bangladesh from where reports of Hindus being targeted are pouring in, there has swept a new wave of torturing and harassing Hindus living there.
Hindu families living for centuries are receiving calls to either cough up protection money or either get killed or leave Bangladesh.
According to well informed sources, such calls have become frequent in villages where the older generation has been mostly living while their children are working in cities.
In cities the number of such threatening calls are less in comparison to villages. Such targeted people own agricultural land also which is their main source of living
Bimon Mukhopadhya ( name changed) did his MBBS from India and got a job in Khulna. His aged parents live in a remote village more than 100 km away from Khulna.
Some days ago his father received a call asking in a stren voice to part with 5 lakh taka or leave Bangladesh. His father was also threatened to be killed in case he failed to abide by the call.
Since then Bimon is worried for his parents and has been calling them several times daily to know about their well being. Although no body has turned up to collect the ransom money neither there has been another call but this episode was enough to terrorise the family.
This was not the lone call as others too are receiving threatening calls. One can imagine the scaring situation that prevails in the entire country of Bangladesh where good number of minorities had been living since ages.
Quit Bangladesh or face death, if you can’t pay protection money,’ the caller said in a rough voice, while calling himself as a member of an Islamist group. Targeted people were being ordered to arrange the money immediately or face the consequences, said Bimon.
