Mob Rule, State Silence: The Unravelling of Minority Rights in Bangladesh

Mob Rule, State Silence: The Unravelling of Minority Rights in Bangladesh

On 14 August 2024, mobs in Khulna looted and set fire to the home of a Hindu businessman, leaving his family homeless and several neighbouring shops destroyed. Sadly, it was not an isolated attack. In the weeks that followed Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, more than a thousand minority homes and businesses were targeted across 49 districts, alongside dozens of temples and monasteries. Worse still, what might once have been dismissed as sporadic communal…