Bangladesh Counters India’s Claims on Hindu Attacks, Calls Them Isolated Crimes
Dhaka calls attacks isolated, accuses exaggeration.
Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a detailed rebuttal on December 28, 2025, firmly dismissing India's expressed concerns regarding the safety and security of Hindu minorities within its borders, asserting that such worries stem from inaccurate, exaggerated, and potentially motivated narratives that fail to align with the factual situation on the ground.
The official statement emphasized Bangladesh's longstanding tradition of communal harmony and religious coexistence, categor (categorically) rejecting any portrayal of recent incidents as evidence of targeted or systemic persecution against Hindus or other minority communities.
India's Ministry of External Affairs had voiced serious alarm two days earlier, condemning specific violent episodes including the brutal December 18 lynching of 27-year-old Hindu garment worker Dipu Chandra Das in Mymensingh district and another fatal assault on a Hindu individual in Rajbari, while citing independent reports documenting thousands of attacks involving killings, arson, temple vandalism, and land encroachments since the political upheaval following Sheikh Hasina's ouster.
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Bangladesh countered by characterizing these events as isolated criminal acts rather than religiously motivated persecution, disputing details of certain cases cited by New Delhi—such as claiming one victim was involved in extortion alongside a Muslim accomplice—and accusing external elements of selectively amplifying incidents to fabricate a narrative of widespread minority oppression aimed at fostering hostility toward Bangladesh and its diplomatic representations in India.
Dhaka urged responsible stakeholders in India to refrain from disseminating what it termed misleading and inflammatory narratives, cautioning that continued propagation of such claims could seriously erode mutual trust, jeopardize good-neighborly relations, and complicate bilateral ties between the two South Asian nations already navigating sensitive post-regime change dynamics.
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