Vested Property- the main causes for the losing Hindu land of Bangladesh
Some 12 lakh or 44 per cent of the 27 lakh Hindu households in the country were affected by the Enemy Property Act 1965 and its post-independence version, the vested property act 1974.The Begum Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government annulled this Act in 2001. It wanted to return the ‘vested’ property to their original Hindu owners. The move was criticized as a ‘political tokenism’ aimed to appease minority voters prior to the general elections. The affected Hindu families met with more incidents of violence and repression in of the BNP-led government than in the previous five years of the Awami league government.
On the continuity of this violence and tortured against minorities are going on till today is not exceptional. The Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) chairman Advocate Rabindra ghosh and associates are working hard to the around the country to collect the information and trying to do something for the minority people including other religious moniroty of Bangladesh. In the very recently the BDMW visited the spot on 30.03.15 Rawli Village within Chhatak Upazila of Sunamgonj District within where some Hindu families had been uprooted from their home and hearth, belongings looted, trees uprooted, the temple destroyed during injunction granted by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Muslim Land grabbers are the party to Injunction petition pending in the court. BDMW talked with victim, witnesses, perpetrators, police, but police totally ignored the injunction order passed by the highest court of the country. Their belongings have been looted, More than 100 trees uprooted, gold ornaments including wearing clothes were stolen, Hindu deities destroyed on 22.03.15.by Muslim perpetrators. A group of Human Rights Activists from Dhaka (Bangladesh Minority Watch) visited the spot, took statements of victims, talked with occupants of Hindu houses on 30th March,15. Hindu victims cried for the restoration of their possession as the land grabbers during status quo order passed by Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Local police kept silent despite information given to police for their safety and protection.
