HINDU PRIEST HACKED TO DEATH IN BENGLDESH

HINDU PRIEST HACKED TO DEATH IN BENGLDESH

ഹിന്ദു പൂജാരിയെ വെട്ടിപ്പരുക്കേൽപ്പിച്ചു

A Hindu priest has been hacked to death by three men on a motorcycle in front of a temple in western Bangladesh, police say.Police said they did not know the motive behind the murder of the priest and no-one had been arrested.Shaymanonda Das, 45, was killed at the Radhamadan Gopal Bigraha Math in Jhinaidah district, 300 kilometres south-west of the capital Dhaka.

"He was preparing morning prayers with flowers at the temple early in the morning and … three young people came by on a motorbike and killed him with machetes and fled away," Jhenaidah district administration chief Mahbubur Rahman said."The nature of the killing was similar with the local militants, but we cannot say more at the moment.

ഹിന്ദു സന്യാസികൾക്ക് നേരെ ബംഗ്ലാദേശിൽ ആക്രമണം തുടരുന്നു. ബംഗ്ലാദേശിലെ സത്‌ഹിര ജില്ലയിലെ ക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ പൂജാരിയെ ഐഎസ് ഭീകരർ ക്രൂരമായി വെട്ടിപ്പരുക്കേൽപ്പിച്ചു. സന്യാസിയായ ബാബസിന്ദു റോയിയെയാണ്(48) ഭീകരർ നിഷ്ഠൂരമായി വെട്ടിക്കൊലപ്പെടുത്താൻ ശ്രമിച്ചത്. സന്യാസിയെ ആശുപത്രിയിൽ പ്രവേശിപ്പിച്ചു.ക്ഷേത്ര കവാടത്തിനുള്ളില്‍വച്ചാണ് ആക്രമണം നടന്നത്. നെഞ്ചിനും പുറത്തും ആഴത്തില്‍ മുറിവേറ്റിട്ടുണ്‌ടെന്ന് ആശുപത്രി അധികൃതര്‍ അറിയിച്ചു. കഴിഞ്ഞ ദിവസം ജഹ്‌നൈദാഹ് ജില്ലയില്‍ ശ്യാമനന്‍ന്തോ ദാസ് (70) എന്ന സന്യാസിയെ അജ്ഞാതര്‍ മര്‍ദ്ദിച്ചു കൊലപ്പെടുത്തിയതിന് തൊട്ടു പിന്നാലെയാണ് അടുത്ത ആക്രമണം ഉണ്ടായത്.

Buddhist mob sets fire to

 Muslim prayer hall in Myanmar

A mob of Buddhists set fire to a Muslim prayer hall in Myanmar on Friday, the day that UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee appealed to the government to put an end to sectarian violence, the media reported on Saturday.An eyewitness said the incident took place in Hpakant town, 652 km north of the capital Nay Pyi Taw, Efe news reported."Buddhist nationalists" demanded the Muslim prayer hall be demolished, saying it had been illegally constructed.The Muslim community said it would do so only on official orders from authorities, but failed to deter the mob made up of hundreds of people mostly from other towns who bore knives and sticks.Firefighters attempted to put out the fire but were prevented from doing so by the mob, the source said.

Lee, the UN special rapporteur for Myanmar, on Friday wrapping up a 12-day visit to the country, called on the government -- the first democratic one in over half a century -- to end institutional discrimination against the Muslim minority."The government must demonstrate that instigating and committing violence against an ethnic or religious minority community has no place in Myanmar," said Lee, an expert in human rights, in Yangon.Sectarian violence in Myanmar broke out in 2012 following the gangrape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men.Dozens of people have since died, and around 140,000 Muslims -- mostly minority Rohingyas who are not recognised by authorities, who term them Bangladeshis -- remain displaced in difficult conditions in camps in western Myanmar.

Prof. John Kurakar