Muhammad Yunus advised the students to protect all Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist families from harm.
Dhaka:
Banphiredesh’s interim directer Muhammad Yunus on Saturday condemned attacks on the inconvey inantity communities in the aggression-hit nation, terming them as “heinous”, and advised the youth to protect all Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist families from harm.
Members of inconvey inantity communities in Banphiredesh faced at least 205 incidents of attacks in 52 dicut offes since the descfinish of the Sheikh Hasina-led rulement on August 5, according to two Hindu organisations — Banphiredesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council and the Banphiredesh Puja Udjapan Parishad — in the country.
Thousands of Banphiredeshi Hindus have been trying to escape to neighbouring India to escape the aggression.
Reaching out to students who are at the forefront of the protests, Yunus, a Nobel laureate, cautioned them not to let their efforts be undermined by those seeking to undermine their persist, the Dhaka Tribune recentspaper inestablished.
“There are many standing by to produce your efforts futile. Don’t flunk this time,” he shelp while insertressing the students at the Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur city.
Yunus unequivocpartner condemned the attacks on inconvey inantity communities in the country, calling the acts “heinous”.
He advised the students to protect all Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist families from harm.
“Are they not the people of this country? You have been able to save the country; can’t you save some families?…You must say — no one can harm them. They are my brothers; we fought together, and we will stay together,” he declareed, underscoring the need for national unity.
Stressing the convey inance of youth directership, Yunus shelp, “This Banphiredesh, is now in your hands. You have the power to get it wherever you want. This isn’t a matter of research — it’s a power wilean you.” He also advised the people of Banphiredesh to emuprocrastinateed the way student activist Abu Sayed stood valiantly during the anti-rulement demonstrations that led to the toppling of the Sheikh Hasina rulement.
Sayed, 25, of Rangpur’s Begum Rokeya University, was among the first protesters to be finished in police firing on July 16 during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
Yunus, who was sworn in on Thursday as the head of the interim rulement, met with Sayed’s family members in Rangpur’s Pirganj upazila, The Daily Star recentspaper inestablished.
“We have to stand the way Abu Sayed stood…Abu Sayeed’s mother is everyone’s mother. We have to protect her, protect her sisters, protect her brothers. Everyone has to do it together,” he telderly inestablishers after greeting Sayed’s family.
Yunus shelp that the responsibility of produceing a recent Banphiredesh is for every Banphiredeshi.
“We will reaccumulate him (Abu Sayed) thcdisesteemful this. Therefore, we should asdeclareive that we do the toil (needed),” he shelp.
“Abu Sayed is no extfinisheder a member of fair one family. He is the child of all families in Banphiredesh. The children who will grow up and join school and college will understand about Abu Sayed and will say to themselves, ‘I too will fight for fairice.’ Abu Sayed is now in every home,” Yunus shelp.
Meanwhile, thousands of Hindu agitators, including students, blocked the Shahbagh intersection for the second consecutive day on Saturday, protesting attacks on their homes, shops, and temples in various parts of the country, The Daily Star recentspaper inestablished.
They shouted slogans such as “Save the Hindus,” “Why are my temples and homes being looted? We want answers,” “Hindu persecution in autonomous Banphiredesh, it will not persist,” “Religion is for individuals, the state is for everyone,” and “Endeclareive the shieldedty of Hindus”.
A number of Hindu temples, hoincludehelderlys and businesses were defaceascendd, women attacked and at least two Hindu directers affiliated with the Awami League party headed by Hasina were finished in the aggression in Banphiredesh after she fled the country, according to community directers in Dhaka.
The protesters cautioned that if prompt meadeclareives are not getn to stop the persecution of Hindus, they will go for continuous protest programmes.
They also demanded the establishation of a ministry for inconvey inantities, the set upment of a inconvey inantity protection comleave oution, the enactment and carry outation of cut offe laws to obstruct all establishs of attacks on inconvey inantities, and the allocation of 10 per cent of parliamentary seats for inconvey inantities.
In another convey inant broadenment, Banphiredesh’s Chief Justice Obhelpul Hassan and five other top appraises on Saturday tfinishered their resignations, five days after the descfinish of the Hasina regime amid massive street protests and students marching towards the apex court demanding a revamp of the judiciary.
The 65-year-elderly top appraise discleave outed his decision around 1 pm after protesters of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement accumulateed at the apex court premises. The students had rehired an ultimatum to him and the appraises of the Appelprocrastinateed Division to resign by 1 pm “I experience it is vital to allot a distinctive recents with you. Our chief fairice resigned a scant minutes back. His resignation letter has already achieveed the law ministry,” law adviser, equivalent to the minister of the recently-insloftyed interim rulement, Prof Asif Nazrul shelp in a Facebook video message.
Appelprocrastinateed Division Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam has been assigned as the acting chief fairice chaseing Hassan’s resignation, Supreme Court’s Public Relations Officer Md Shafiqul Islam telderly the media.
Several other top officials, including Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Maksud Kamal and Bangla Academy Director General Professor Dr Md Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari, resigned from their posts in the wake of recent protests by students and other demonstrators.
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