Endangered Minorities ____________________________________________
There were around 43 million populations in this part on the day of division of India in 1947, of whom 30% were counted as to around 15 million Hindus and other minorities. However, the minorities were rich in all respects here in possessing & controlling the wealth & economy, educational & cultural advancement and socially & politically. Having had political debacle through the division of India in 1947, they were psychologically weaken and at the same time were threatened by the majority by virtue of the political decision to leave their (mostly the Hindus) homes of thousands years and relations rooted to the deepest of their birth land. Millions migrated to India and other millions were left in the then East Pakistan , however, with full of uncertainty and under continuous threat of life, prestige, wealth and what not, only just because of great affection to the home of their own. On such natural home-sick, they had to pay the highest at numerous times as in 1948, 1952, 1962 and 1964 while the majority jumped on them cracking everything each time. Their only wrong is why they love their homeland and why not they leave that forever. Yes, the majority community was success at all the times to kill & conquer the lives of innocent minorities, their wealth and women. Cruelty does not know any mercy that the majority gets the only characteristic that later possesses as the main output of 2-nation theory! This the independence of Indian sub-continent brought to the fate of minorities of this part of the world.
This way the minorities (most of them are Hindus) started becoming homeless, wreathless & rootless and their population came down to 15% in the late 60s while there was, of course, certain deviation in terms of change of mentality of the majority community towards the minority during the movement of independence of the Bangladesh during 1970-71. However, still the later had to pay the highest to be targeted by the Pakistan admin & their allies in this part to be blamed as the spy of India , though participation by the people at the movement was irrespective of religion identity as a whole to fight against the Pakistani occupants. One of the main ideological pillars of the independent movement was secularism, that's why this could able to remove the communal feelings of the people here most significantly. As a result, out of four, secularism was declared as a state ideology constitutionally. However, the non-communal or secularist character of the country could prevail only for a little more than three years. Soon after the killing of the founder of the country Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in mid 1975, this was crossed out from the constitution replacing with Islamic vise communal character of the constitution alias the country. Thus, again the torture started by the majority Muslims over the Hindu minorities. In spite of regular and continuous communal treatment in each corner of the society, the most two eminent incidents occurred during in 1990 under the guidance of the then government of General Ershad and in 1992 under the guidance of the then government of Begum Khaleda. These times the victims were so poor in all respects that they could resist nothing, but to be tortured in all the ways by the majority, and started migrating to India very silently due to changing political scenario in the sub-continent, clearly to say that India was obliged to accept the migrants from the then Pakistan under the tri-party (Britain-India-Pakistan) agreement before the independence of Bangladesh, after which they (India) were no more obliged to accept any migrant from Bangladesh. Thus the situation became more critical for the Hindu minorities as infiltrated migrants to India . They became at a nowhere position, they could resist and protect nothing from the attack of majority. Result is that till mid 1996 their population came down to 10% from 15% in total population of Bangladesh . The communality started thriving on the eve of general election of 2001 and the got the highest form after the 1 st October election. The then new government totally denied the torture, though the culprits were their followers and the administration helped them all the way for such inhuman torturing over the minority. They had nothing to give except their lives and women. They could not even file any case to any legal authority, if they would do it simply they would be killed and the government is here to protect the killers telling that there nothing happens to the minority, they are fine, the vested corner is diminishing the image of the country through information terrorism. What a fate! What a liar! Thus again what to do, the Hindus & other minorities groups of present Bangladesh, being one of the most destitute communities of the world are at the edge of being vanished forever, simple to say it's ethnic cleansing. Within the years 2001-2006, they have declined to less than 10%. This indicates that the minority populations in the geographical boundary of Bangladesh has been declined more than 75% from 1947 to 2006, whereas the total population here has been increased by 300% during this period. If calculated, for the same period, statistically it is found that only the Muslim population has increased here by 400% during the same period, and if it is take as a normal population growth rate, while Hindu & other minority groups population could be here more than 65 million at present Bangladesh, provided all of them could stay here, however the number is approximately 15 million at present. Where have these 50 million Hindu & other minority people gone? Yes most of them have migrated to India , are migrating to India every day, will be migrating to India , if the condition is not improved in Bangladesh . Also few of them are migrating to other countries of the world, while also few of them are converted to Muslims.
If anyone could visit India and travel over train can see hundreds of kilometers at either side of the rail lines, there are thousands of huts and slams, further, if anyone could visit deserts and forests in the middle India namely the Dandakaranya, and again if s/he could visit slams nearby Delhi and Mumbai, also can find people and just could ask who are they, where were their original homeland? Simply could know they are none but the most wretched people of present Bangladesh . All of them are living inhuman lives.
Thus, it is evident that the minorities either living in Bangladesh or migrated from Bangladesh to any where in the world are at threat with their identity and survivorship. They have become the endangered species of the humankind.