Staff correspondent :

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed has reiterated Bangladesh Awami League’s strong commitment to ensure peace and harmony for people of all religions, saying that when the BNP-Jamaat clique ruled the country, the state-sponsored violence against minorities was the worst. Major programs were carried out.
Congratulating Vijaya Dashami on the occasion of Durga Bisarjan, Sajib Wazed said in a Facebook post that this year the puja is celebrated within the festival which is promoted by Awami League.
Mentioning at least 28,000 attacks on minorities, including rape, murder, looting and burning of places of worship and houses, he wrote, the lives of minorities were turned upside down during the tenure of BNP Jamaat.
Minority leaders are said to have expressed their gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the smooth puja celebrations across the country as the number of pandals increased this year.
Minority community leaders recently commented on the Bangladesh Nationalist Dal (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami’s campaign that “minorities are not safe” under the Awami League government, citing their reluctance to admit that minorities “were subjected to massive communal attacks” during the previous BNP-Jamaat government. Condemned.  
Sajib Wazed called the BNP Jamaat’s denial of committing such crimes a “failed image-building exercise” and compared it to a despicable plot by the Pakistan Army to mislead the world about the worst massacre in 1971. Awami League’s takeover of power
. Noting that communal harmony has also been restored, he wrote, “It is our pledge that people of all religions can live in harmony in the dream of Bangladesh’s founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. His post also includes a short documentary that compiles a series of media
reports and interviews from 2001 to 2006. A flashback to the many brutal acts of violence perpetrated on Hindus after the BNP Jamaat-backed government came to power.
Soon after the BNP Jamaat came to power in 2001, the biggest terror attacks against the minorities took place, including rape looting and burning of places of worship and houses.
Referring to the reported rape of around 200 Hindu women on 16 November 2001 in a remote upazila of Bhola, the video quoted media reports that claimed direct involvement of BNP Jamaat cadres.
The video reminds that neither a four-year-old nor a 70-year-old escaped the hands of these sentries.
Community leaders said atrocities such as rape were carried out to intimidate minorities, forcing them to flee the country.
Mass media reports revealed that those who participated in the atrocities had the direct support of BNP Jamaat leaders.
Faced with such sheer brutality, hundreds of Hindu communities fled the country. The biggest sin for minorities was to support Awami League”, the video says.
The video also reminds of another conspiracy of BNP Jamaat people. So that on March 5, 2003, they forced devotees in a remote union of Nilphamari to stop attending prayers at the temple.
Angered by local residents’ support for the Awami League, BNP Jamaat cadres surrounded a temple to prevent anyone from performing religious ceremonies.
In Bogra, vandalism of idols was reported while there was a renewed terror attack on Hindus at various places including Sitaku.
Fearing detection, Hindu women even refrain from applying vermilion on the forehead or wearing bangles, an indicator of their ordeal.
Community leaders went on hunger strike to protest such atrocities aimed at turning the country into communalism.
In short, extermination of minorities through state-sponsored repression has been the hallmark of the late BNP Jamaat regime.