Guest writes James Peris provides good news about Bangladesh:
Under the provisions of the emergency
power and defence of Pakistan rules(DPR), the government of Pakistan passed an
executive order on September 9, 1965 named Enemy Property order II of 1965”.
This law was made against the Hindus those who left Pakistan for India. When
they left the country, they left all of their properties behind . The
government made the act to confiscate their properties to considering them as
they are enemy of the country. This was not the end of the story. The act
became an weapon of Muslims of Bangladesh later on to use it against all the
religious minorities to grab their lands. But present government, the ruling
party, Bangladesh Awami League abolished the act in the Parliament on Monday 28th
of November 2011.
The present ruling party Bangladesh Awami
League believe in Secularism. When they fought against Pakistan for the freedom
they had four main principles what we say founding philosophy of our
Independence are- Democracy, Secularism, Socialism and Bengali Nationality.
This is why all the minorities vote for
Awami League without any question. They haven’t got any other choice. This is
why BNP(pro-Islamic party) and Jamat-E- Islami don’t like us.
After the parliamentary election of 2001
when Bangladesh Awami League was defeated and BNP- Jamat leaders and activists
started attacking and looting the houses of minorities. They killed many
minorities, raped their girls, women even open on the street. Thousands of
Hindus left Bangladesh and fled to India. It continued months. Before 2001
Christians of Bangladesh have never faced a such terrible persecution in the
history of that land. It could have been worse if all the minorities of
Bangladesh didn’t unite in home and abroad. Not only the minorities, we also
worked with progressive Muslim side by side. Even many Muslims died to protect
us in there like Suleman Tasir in Pakistan.
We worked together until we succeeded.
Finally the BNP-Jamat regime had fallen and Grand Alliance(Awami League and
some other parties) made a landslide victory in election 2009. The ruling party
is trying their best to act like a progressive party and this is why the Home-
Minister advocate Sahara Khatun declared on 01/12/11 that those who are
responsible of attacking, looting, killing and raping women of minorities after
election 2001, will face trial. A commission was formed before ,called justice
Shahabuddin Chnnu who made already a report and government will follow the
report.
This is no doubt about it that it is a
great achievement for the all minorities of Bangladesh. It has happened and
still many things to happen, because Minorities of Bangladesh working hard home
and abroad.
Our elders founded an organisation in 1988
when Islam was declared as the state religion of Bangladesh, is called
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council. We are working under this
umbrella together, and we won’t stop until the end.
James Swapan Peris
President, The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist
Christian Unity Council, European Committee.
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