Communal Attacks

A partial picture of incidents of communal attacks, vandalism, looting and arson in various parts of the country from August 5 to August 8

Dhaka Division:
Dhaka Metropolis and District:
• Miscreants took over 3 shops of Sanjay Ghosh near Lakshmi Narayan Temple in Sutrapur;
• Attack and vandalism of Khilgao Nandipara Kali Temple and attack, vandalism and looting of minority
houses in the vicinity;
• Tantibazar threatens to attack 50 minority families adjacent to Shiv Mandir anytime
The perpetrators;
• Biplab Rajvanshi’s gold shop and Gopal Rajvanshi’s medicine shop in Manda, Ward No. 71, Mugda police
station.
Miscreants attacked the pharmacy and looted it;
•
Miscreants are attacking and looting the houses of minorities in Rajarbagh of Sabujbagh police station;
Miscreants have forcibly occupied the land owned by Buddha Vihar at Kalachandpur in Badda:
Deepali Chakraborty’s house in Dhamrai was attacked and vandalized;
• Above threatening to attack the restaurant owned by Manik Lal Chowdhury on Bailey Road
Miscreants, they can attack anytime.
Narayanganj District:
Attack and looting of Ashok Sarkar’s house in Kashipur village in Narayanganj Fatulla police station,
At the residence of Shri Makhan Chandra Sarkar, Narayanganj District, Bhuigar Fatulla Police Station
As soon as they set fire to everything they plundered;
• 2500 ram doctor’s house attacked and vandalized, miscreants surrounded the house;
Attack, vandalism, beating and looting of Sujan Sahar’s house in Gopaldi of Araihajar Upazila;
Rupganj Upazila Puja Parishad President Ganesh Pal’s shop vandalized and looted;
• Narayanganj District Mrs. Seema Pal Shila house attacked, looted.
Munshiganj District:
In Sadar Upazila, the houses of the minorities were attacked and vandalized in the Hindu neighborhood
next to the police station
Rogues;
• Ramkrishna Mission temple in Paikpara of Tongibari Upazila was attacked and vandalized by miscreants;
• Sirajdikhan Upazila Paritosh Debnath’s house was attacked, vandalized and looted by miscreants;
By attacking the house of Ratan Sahar in Kamargaon of Bhagyakul Union of Srinagar Upazila
The miscreants have done extensive vandalism, beatings and looting.
Narsingdi District:
• Vandalism and looting of Narsingdi businessman Deepak Sahar’s house and office.
Manikganj District:Assault, vandalism and looting of Manik Nandi’s house on Gafargaon Road in Bhaluka;
• Miscreants attacked Thakurbari of GLpur Union of Daulatpur police station, detained Barun Chakraborty.
Kishoreganj District:
Assault, vandalism, looting and arson at Prof. Pranab Kumar Sarkar’s house in Sadar;
• Arson at the houses of Nakul Kumar and Sushant in Agarpur village of Kuliarchar; Hindu houses were
attacked, vandalized, looted and set on fire at Tarakandi in Kuliarchar.
Faridpur District:
• In Sadar, in Dengamari and Krishnapur villages, Hindu villagers were beaten up and hacked with sharp
weapons.
Miscreants, locals are in panic.
Tangail District:
• Attack on Kalimandir in Deldoar Upazila Bazar, vandalism and attack on house of Bhajan Kumar Mitra,
vandalism and looting; Attempted attack on minority houses in Barakalibari area;
Gopalpur Upazila Secretary Subhash Kundur’s home and business were attacked, vandalized, beaten and
looted, his mother seriously injured; Miscreants have taken over Bhushandi Rathkhola field in Ranail
village of Mirzapur upazila;
• The house of Tangail District Principal Anand Mohan Dey was set on fire.
Manikganj District:
• Family Durga of Rahul Guha Majumdar and Swadhani Guha Majumdar of Barabatia Union of Ghior
Police Station and
Kali temple was attacked.
Gazipur District:
• Massive attack, vandalism, looting and arson on Sanjit Mallick’s house and business in Mahanagar.
Rajbari District:
• Set fire to minority shops in Rathbazar of Shimulbari Union in Rajbari Jaldanga.
Burned by miscreants.
Faridpur District:
Minority shops were attacked, vandalized and looted in Madhukhali’s Purabadi Bazaar.
Shariatpur District:
• Vandalism of Dhanuka temple in Sadar and attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in the
vicinity.
Chittagong Division:
Chittagong District:
Satkania upazila engineer Likhan Kanti Dash’s family pharmacy was attacked, vandalized and looted

• The house of Sourav Nath, a computer operator of Chambalstha Union in Banskhali, was attacked,
vandalized and
arson;
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses and shops in Noapara village of Raujan; The house of
Kajal Kanti Loder of Patenga police station was attacked, vandalized and looted;
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Sadar’s Chawkbazar; Navagraha temple in Sadar
attacked, vandalized;
The miscreants retreated in the face of the attempt to attack the houses of Hazarigali minorities; Attack,
vandalism and looting of Ujjal Chakraborty’s house in Raujan;
• The house of Rabindra Lal Chowdhury in Binajuri village of Raujan was heavily attacked, vandalized,
beaten and
robbery;
Mass attack, vandalism and looting of Sameer Dasgupta’s house in Raujan;
• Miscreants threaten to occupy temple in Kathgarh Hindu neighborhood and prepare to occupy;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Ujjal Chakraborty’s house in Roujan.
• Chittagong South Tapas Kanti Dutta’s house attacked, looted, vandalized;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Sujan Das’ house in Paratali;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Kajal Nath’s shop and house in Suraksha village of Raujan;
• Masked miscreants attacked Acharya Para of North Kathtali Ward No. 10 last night.
came to do, they retreated in the face of resistance from the Hindus.
Feni District:
• Miscreants attacked the Durga temple in the city and vandalized it extensively.
Laxmipur District:
Gautam Majumder’s house attacked, vandalized, looted and set on fire in Chandraganj.
Attack on business establishment of Ashu Kumar Das in Tumchad of Ramgati upazila, demand of Rs 3
lakhs.
Noakhali District:
Assault, beating, molestation, vandalism and looting of Sahdev Roy’s house in Hatiar Sonadia;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Charhajari Haran Master’s house in Basurhat Upazila, the assailants
abducted Bikash Chakraborty from his house to an unknown location; Miscreants have taken over a Hindu-
owned LPG station on the bank of a pond near Sonapur Road in Kabirhat police station;
• Miscreants have taken over Satta LP, gas station owned by Uttam Kumar in Karibahat Radhipukur area;
Subarnachar Upazila Oikya Parishad leader Dr. Miscreants attacked Utpal Mazumdar;
Attack, vandalism and vandalism at Shivcharan’s house in Ward No. 7 of West Charbhata Union No. 2 of
Subarnachar Upazila.
There has been a robbery.
Chandpur District:
Haripad Das’s house was attacked, vandalized and looted in Faridganj Upazila;
Massive attack, vandalism and looting in Hindu neighborhood in Gupti Union in Faridganj.
Comilla District:
Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Banik Para, Rohitpur, Muradnagar;
Temple attacked; idol vandalized in Muradnagar;

• Attack, vandalism and looting of Daudkandi Tapas Adhikari’s house;
• Miscreants attacked Tapas Adhikari’s house in Ward No. 7 of Daudkandi Malikao Union.
Brahmanbaria District:
• Attack on Kaivallabhum ashram, Paikpara, east of Sadar, broke the ghat of the pond and occupied it.
Mymensingh Division:
Mymensingh District:
• Attack, beating, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Dumkul village of Ballia Union, Phulpur:
Miscreants have looted 2 cars of cylinder gas trader Pradeep Debnath in Gouripur;
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Tarakanda Upazila; Ashok Pal and Ujjal Sahar’s
houses were attacked, vandalized and looted in Muktagacha;
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of houses and businesses of Gouripur Upazila Somnath Sahar; Massive
attack, vandalism and looting of house and business of Tarakanda Upazila Pradeep Chakraborty:
Miscreants attacked Shyamal Pal’s house in Ward No. 32 of Shambhuganj;
The miscreants went to Rekha Rani Sarkar’s house adjacent to Anandmohan College and demanded
subscription, if not, the country
threatened to leave;
A number of minority businesses were attacked and taken over in Gafargaon market
Rogues;
• Sadar District Add. Miscreants attacked Piyush Kanti’s government chamber, set it on fire after extensive
vandalism, and miscreants seized the land owned by his village house in Dhobaura upazila.
Sherpur District:
• Attack, vandalism and looting of the residence of the President of Srivardi Upazila Jubo Oikya Parishad;
• Assault, vandalism and looting of the house of Debashish Bhattacharya, Sherpur District; Assault,
vandalism and looting of Sherpur Gopal Chandra Sarkar’s house and business;
• Massive attack, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Hindu neighborhood of Nalitabari upazila.
Netrakona District:
Ramakrishna Mission and ISKCON Temples in Sadar were attacked, vandalized and houses of minorities
attacked, vandalized and
Robbers carried out looting;
Bricks were thrown at the Christian Church in Birishiri Union in Durgapur Upazila.
Rajshahi Division:
Jaipurhat District:
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority shops in Arampur and Purganj of Kshetlal police station.
Naogaon District:
• Miscreants attacked Lakshmi temple in Basanti Nandi in Hindu neighborhood in Patnitala upazila,
threatening 30-40 minority families in the vicinity, now they are in extreme fear.
Natore District:

• Dr. Radhakrishnapur village of Lalpur Doordaria Union. Hargobind Mandal’s house was attacked,
vandalized and
The miscreants, threatened with plunder and re-attack, are all in a state of panic;
• Lalpur Upazila Ajit Kumar Sarkar’s house was pelted with bricks and miscreants attacked and looted 4
shops belonging to minorities.
Bogra District:
• Attack, vandalism on Sakthipith temple in Bhavanipur;
Minority shops and neighboring houses were attacked, vandalized and
robbery;
• Attacks, vandalism and looting in Shivganj’s Narayanpur, a minority-inhabited area.
• Attacking, vandalizing and looting 5-7 minority shops in Baragola Tilapatti;
Dr. Sahapukur village of Dupchanchia upazila. Gautam Kumar Mondal’s house was attacked, vandalized
and looted.
Sirajganj District: Attack, vandalism and looting of Ghoshpara worker’s house in Tarash Upazila; Fire at
Santosh Kumar Kanu’s shop;
• Vandalism and looting of Sirajganj gold shop;
• Burned Ajay Dutt’s shop in Sirajganj;
• Journalist Pradeep Kumar Bhowmik of Raiganj Upazila of Sirajganj District was killed.
Pabna District:
Minority houses were attacked, vandalized and looted in Haturia under Bara police station.
Khulna Division:
Khulna District:
The house of Shyamal Kumar Das and Swajan Kumar Das of Haisgati village of Rupsa police station was
attacked, vandalized and
robbery;
Khulna district Biman Bihari Amit and Jubo Oikya Parishad president Animesh Sarkar vandalized and
looted their houses in Tutpara of Rintur town;
Jayant Gain’s house attacked, vandalized at Amtali, Banisanta, Dakop;
Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Daspara of Koira;
Attack, vandalism and looting of Hindu neighborhood in Malikhali village of Koira upazila;
Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Saha neighborhood next to Kuwait University;
Khulna metropolis Gopal Chandra Sahar godowns and business establishments attacked, vandalized and
looted;
• Nirpen Roy and his son Anup Roy of Star Jute Mills Gate 1, Chandanimhal, Dighlia were threatened.
Giving miscreants, his house may be attacked at any time;
• Miscreants pelted bricks at churches in Christian neighborhoods.
Jessore District:
• Arson of 3 houses in Dhopadi Palpara village in Abhaynagar;

22 shops vandalized and looted including Bablu Sahar Godown in Bagharpara Coconut Baria; Attacks,
vandalism and looting of minority houses in Keshavpur; Attempts to attack the homes of minorities in Sadar
Bechpara;
• Attacks, beatings, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Burmanpara;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Padmapukur house of Kumar Chandra Das, Jhikargacha Upazila;
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Manirampur, Keshavpur, Abhaynagar, Bagharpara
and Jhikargacha, now going on, dire situation, no help available even by contacting the cantonment.
The leaders of Oikya Parishad said;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Kartik Poddar’s business establishment in Sadar;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of 5 minority shops in Durbadanga Bazar of Manirampur police station;
• Attack on 10-14 houses of Kundu Para and Para Sanlgarab minorities in Senhati village of Dighlia police
station,
Vandalism and looting.
Satkhira District:
8-10 minority shops attacked, vandalized and looted in Kalaroa:
Satkhira District Biswajit Sadhu’s house attacked, vandalized, looted and set on fire;
• Dr. Satkhira. Subrata Ghosh’s house was attacked, vandalized, looted and set on fire;
Vandalism and looting of minority shops in Kathipara market of Tala upazila;
The houses of Chandan Sen, Dhiman Dutt and Akash Dutt were attacked, vandalized and robbery.
Jhenaidah District:
The houses of 10 minority families are being attacked, vandalized and looted in Chaklapara Municipality;
The houses of 10 Hindu families in the municipality were raided and looted;
Attack, vandalism, looting and extortion of minority shops in Kotchandpur;
Minority houses were attacked, vandalized and looted in Sadar’s Chaklapara.
Ram Chandra Sarkar’s house in Sadar was attacked, vandalized and looted.
Magura District:
• Assault, vandalism and looting of Sanjib Biswas’ house; 3 brothers of the same family were seriously
injured after entering the house and beating them; Attacks on minority-inhabited areas in Singra village,
rampant vandalism and looting are ongoing;
• Minority shops were attacked in Satyaujirpur market of Sadar upazila.
Shops of Babul Chatterjee and Sukant Chakraborty in Mohammadpur were looted, vandalized and forcibly
occupied;
Attack on Latu Mohant’s house in Sadar’s Islam Para, beating and looting of family members:
• 40-50 shops belonging to minorities were attacked, vandalized, looted and set on fire in Chowrangi Bazar
of Shant Village, No. 2 Ichania Union of Bochaganj Police Station, Kishore Roy seriously injured;
Miscreants have forcibly occupied Phultala crematorium;
• At least 5 temples including Parvatipur Kalimandir were attacked, vandalized.
Panchagarh District:
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Ward 2 and 3 in Sadar;
Attack, vandalism and looting of the house of Swapan Debnath of Ward No. 1 of Jolai Union No. 1 of
Sadar;

Attack, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Hindu neighborhood of Pancharir Union of Boda police
station;
Attacks, vandalism and vandalism on minority houses and shops in old Atwari village in Atwari police
station.
robbery;
• Assault, vandalism and looting of Gaurang Babu’s house at Sonahar in Debiganj;
• Vandalism in Sardar Para temple of Sonahar Union of Deviganj Upazila.
Lalmonirhat District:
• Assault, vandalism and looting of Pradeep Kumar Roy’s house; Attacks and looting of Rajpur GuruBrahm
Ashram in Sadar and attacks and looting of minority houses in Kantiswarpara and Panchagram;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Amiya Prasad’s house in Panchagram Union of Sadar;
• Miscreants attacked, vandalized and looted the house of Sadar Upazila Jiban Roy;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Keshta Kumar Barman’s house at Godamari, Hativanga.
• Attack, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Shabadal village of Aditmari Upazila; Jeevan Ray’s
house was attacked, vandalized and looted and seriously injured by beating.
Gaibandha District:
• Assault, vandalism and looting of Manik Kumar Sahar’s home and business;
• Journalist Deepak Kumar Pal’s office and home were attacked, vandalized and his motorcycle set on fire;
Attack, vandalism and looting of Niranjan Ghosh’s house; Attack, vandalism and looting of Palashbari
Upazila Dilip Sahar’s house; Gobindganj Upazila Rimon Talukdar’s office and house attacked, vandalized
and looted;
• Attack, vandalism and looting of Milon Sarkar’s house in Boal Union of Sadar Upazila;
Minority houses were attacked, vandalized and looted in Bivindab Union of Saghata Upazila.
Rogues.
Thakurgaon District:
• Attacks, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Sadar;
Minority shops were attacked and vandalized and looted in Sadar’s Shilpara village.
The perpetrators;
• Assault, vandalism and arson at Union No. 2 cremation temple in Pirganj;
Attempted attack on ISKCON temple in Sadar, preparations for attack on 300 to 400 minority houses in the
vicinity;
• Massive attack, vandalism and looting of foreign moon’s house on north side of ISKCON temple.
Nilphamari District:
• The house of Amulya Chandra Biswas of Ward No. 4 of Sonara Union No. 11 of Sadar Upazila was
attacked and vandalized.
and robbery;
Attack, vandalism and looting of minority houses of Bamunia Union of Domar Upazila;
• Shop vandalized and looted by Kamal Raye at Medical intersection of Dimla upazila
Rogues.

Kurigram District:
• Attacked, vandalized and looted the house of Manoranjan Sen in Rabaitani village of Phulbari upazila.
Rogues.
Sylhet Division:
Sylhet District:
Attack, vandalism and looting of Rocky Dev’s house in Sadar; The office of Jagdish Chandra Das in Sadar
was attacked, vandalized and looted.
Habiganj District:
• Attack, vandalism and looting of the shop of Asit Baran Das, President of Upazila Oikya Parishad in
Shaestaganj Bazaar; A policeman working at Baniachang police station brutally killed Santosh Kumar and
cheered on his dead body.
Barisal Division:
Barisal District:
Miscreants attacked and vandalized the house of the head teacher of Mahilara High School in Gournadi
Upazila;
Miscreants attacked Subrata Kundu and Montu Kundu houses in Kundu Para of Banaripara Upazila and
looted them.
Jhalakathi District:
• Attack, vandalism and looting of journalist Dulal Sahar’s house in Sadar;
• The miscreants are journalists near Avinash Chandra Sanyal of Ward No. 9 of Banshbaria village of
Kanthalia police station.
They demanded 50,000 rupees as a contribution, otherwise they threatened to drive them out of the country.
Patuakhali District:
• Attack, vandalism of Radha Gobind temple in Kuakata and attack, vandalism and looting of Anant
Mukherjee’s house.
Pirojpur District:
• Attack, vandalism and looting of minority houses in Rayerkathi, Gopalpur, Sadar; The houses of Gaur
Narayan Roy Chowdhury and Gopal Chandra Bose of Ward No. 2 of Sadar were attacked, vandalized,
looted and set on fire and the house of Dilip Kumar Mridha of Ward No. 1 was attacked, vandalized and
looted. Looting going on at Sangati Uni’s Bara Bridge High School Sanlagharb Kalibari;
• Attack on the temple of Pirojpur Mathbaria Harichand Tagore; Miscreants attacked, vandalized and looted
minority shops in Nazirpur’s Sriramkathi Bazar. 20 minority houses attacked, vandalized, looted and set on
fire in Indurkathi.