Hindu American groups seek sanctions against Bangladesh over attacks on minorities

Things took a crook for the worse this week aft Hindu spiritual person Chinmoy Krishna Das was arrested successful a sedition case. He was aboriginal denied bail by a court, triggering protests by assemblage members successful assorted locations, including the superior Dhaka and the larboard metropolis of Chattogram.

Das was a subordinate of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and was precocious expelled.
Vishva Hindu Parishad America (VHPA) president Ajay Shah said the quality of Das’ arrest, vandalism of Kali Mandir successful Chittagong and the rising attacks connected Hindus crossed Bangladesh are disconcerting.

“Is this the quality rights bequest the Biden medication wants to beryllium remembered for,” helium asked. VHPA wide caput Amitabh Mittal said, “The soundlessness of planetary media regarding the ongoing atrocities against minorities successful Bangladesh is deafening. The caller apprehension of an ISKCON clergyman and the convulsive attacks connected Hindu temples underscore the alarming emergence successful spiritual intolerance.” These incidents are portion of a “broader signifier of discrimination”, helium alleged.

“The deficiency of planetary condemnation lone further emboldens the perpetrators and threatens the information and state of number communities successful Bangladesh,” Mittal said.

In an unfastened missive to President-elect Donald Trump, Hindus for America First (HFAF) recommended halting US backing for projects successful Bangladesh tied to Beijing’s ambitions and prioritising initiatives that payment America and its allies directly.

“Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian communities successful Bangladesh person faced systemic unit and discrimination. We humbly inquire that your medication marque US assistance contingent connected the Bangladeshi authorities taking measurable enactment to support these populations. Taxpayer dollars should ne'er enactment governments that neglect to safeguard their astir susceptible citizens,” said HFAF Founder and Chairman Utsav Sanduja.

He claimed definite Bangladeshi officials person ties to extremist groups similar Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat-e-Islam, and these connections airs a menace to US security. “We respectfully urge visa restrictions and tighter oversight to forestall these ideologies from taking basal connected American soil,” Sanduja said successful his letter.

Observing that Bangladesh’s garment exports trust heavy connected US markets, helium said that by imposing strategical tariffs, the Trump medication tin prioritise American manufacturing and guarantee that our workers, not overseas economies, payment from American commerce.

“Access to US defence exertion and intelligence-sharing programmes should beryllium reserved for nations aligned with America’s information priorities. We urge pausing defence practice with Bangladesh until it aligns with US interests,” Sanduja said.

A typical of Hindu temples crossed the USA, Tejal Shah, besides condemned the unit against minorities successful Bangladesh.

“I precise powerfully condemn putting Shree Krishna Das Prabhu Ji successful jail, vandalism and demolition of Hindu temples successful large cities of Bangladesh,” she said.

“The minorities are surviving successful changeless fear, being harassed and the satellite is silently watching. This suffering indispensable stop, the rights of Hindus, who are minorities, indispensable beryllium protected… the expectations of American Hindus… should not beryllium undermined by the administration,” she said.