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| Participants at a rally at Teacher-Student Centre of Dhaka University yesterday protesting the attack on Buddhists. |
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
The young Buddhists have termed the Ramu violence an attack on their existence, which has been jeopardised through trepidation and mistrust.
“We are really worried about our future in the country as we are falling victims to attacks and violence in different places," said Probal Barua Sani, a private university student in Chittagong.
"We are now living with an inferiority complex, which seriously affects our psyche,” he told The Daily Star at the Second Buddhist Youth Festival-2012 at the capital's Bangladesh Shishu Academy yesterday.
Several other youths who attended the festival echoed Sani.
The daylong festival included discussion, magic show, fun show, documentary show, career seminars, jubo adda, and quiz competition.
Although the festival was supposed to be a source of great enjoyment for the Buddhist youths, the September 29 attack in Ramu in Cox's Bazar and some other places in Chittagong has overshadowed it.
A young jobholder, Ripon Barua, said he did not want to recall the ugly and terrible experiences of the violence and wanted live peacefully with all other communities.
Founder Chairman of Buddhist Youth Festival Group Charu Uttam Barua said the young generation would prove through their activities that the Buddhists and their culture were not any different in the country.
Educationist Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said there was no scope to consider any particular community separately because all were citizens of this country.
Terming the Ramu violence a failure of the administration, he urged the government to be alert about the evil forces so that such incident does not repeat.
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The main opposition BNP yesterday rejected the government probe report on Ramu attacks, saying that it was done as per the government's dictate to shift the blame on the opposition.
“It is an administrative probe…it has no acceptability,” senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed told journalists after visiting ailing Language Movement veteran Oli Ahad in a hospital in the capital.
He reiterated his party's demand for a judicial probe body to debunk the mystery behind the September 29 attacks on Buddhist households and places of worship in Cox's Bazar and Chittagong.
The government body investigating the attacks submitted its report to the home ministry on Thursday, holding mainly the opposition men responsible for the violence.
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Two activists of pro-Jamaat student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir were held yesterday on charge of their involvement in vandalism at a Buddhist temple in Cox's Bazar on September 30.
The arrestees are Mohammad Emran, 22, son of Kalu Mia, and Ziabur Rahman, 27, son of Sayed Alam. Both are residents of Uttar Khamarpara area of Chowfaldondi of Cox's Bazar.
Jashim Uddin, officer-in-charge of Cox's Bazar Model Police Station, said they arrested the people from Khamarpara of Chowfaldondi area around 5:00am.
Mahmudul Haque, sub-inspector at the police station, said the arrestees took part in vandalism of a Buddhist temple in Khurolia Barua Para.
Police filed two cases with Cox's Bazar Police Station the next day of the incident. Of the cases -- one was filed for vandalising the temple and another for assaulting policemen, he said, adding that the arrestees were shown arrested in the cases.
Meanwhile, police yesterday evening arrested another person from Ramu on charge of torching and vandalising Buddhist temples on September 29.
The arrestee is Rahamat Ullah, 30, son of Jabor Ullah, resident of Lamarpar Ukhia Ghona of Ramu.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Leaders of seven political parties at a rally on Thursday demanded the government to conduct judicial probe into the recent attack on Buddhists and ensure security during Durga puja across the country.
Protesting the recent communal attacks, the seven political parties -- Workers' Party of Bangladesh, Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity, Ganatantri party, Bangladesh Samyabadi Dal, Gana Azadi League, Gana Oikya and Communist Kendra -- jointly organised the rally on Jatiya Press Club premises.
Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon said fundamentalists are conspiring to foil the war crimes trial.
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