Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: In solidarity with the protesting Bangladeshis, especially the Hindus, a large number of people took out a candle light march in Gurugram, NCR.
Led by Ajay Pandita, chief of Kashmir Peace Lovers, a number of citizens, including youth and women staged the candle light march for the protesting Bangladeshi Hindus who are seeking protection against brutal killings, arson, loot and destruction of their properties and places of worship after the fallout of the forcible exit of Sheikh Hasina Government.
Prominent amongst others, who participated in the march, included noted senior Lawyer Ashok Bhan, Mahesh Dyama (Councillor-Gurgaon), Rajesh Pandit, Satish Gudiya, Sanjay Bhat, Anil Pawar, Ashok Rai, Anand Srivastava, Nanda and women wing activists Jaya Kachroo, Virin Dhar, Amita Pathak and Sujata Dhar.
Speaking on the occasion, Ashok Bhan urged the UN Secretary General to appoint a team of UN officials led by a special Rapporteur to visit Bangladesh and submit a ground level assessment of the human rights violations inflicted on the innocent citizens especially the minorities by killings, arson, loot and burning of properties and temples etc and vandalism against the statutes of eminent Bangladeshis.
The UN Secretary General is urged to build pressure on Interim Bangladesh Government to restore the peace and to bring the perpetrators of violence to justice, he added.
Expressing deep concern over the incidents of violence against Hindus, Buddhists and other minority communities in Bangladesh during the change of power in the last few days, the speakers said that the atrocities such as targeted killing of Hindus and other minority community people, looting, arson, heinous crimes against women and attacks on places of worship like temples in Bangladesh are intolerable and the entire world should strongly condemn the same.
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