Thousands of Hindu migrants are crossing the Indo-Bangladesh border near Habra risking their lives, leaving everything including their near and dear ones behind to save themselves from large-scale attacks on minorities in Bangladesh.
"The true picture is not known to the outside world. It is a free for all so far it goes to torturing minority Hindus. Women and property are the prime targets hundreds of Hindu women are hospitalised, many were killed after being raped," Bidhu Bhusan Das, one of the migrants from Barishal, who fled leaving behind his relatives said The local municipality pretends ignorance as do the police and the administration, but the migrants are moving in daily via Hakimpur, Bongaon (Petrapole) borders and dispersing to districts like Bardhaman and Midnapore even to far off places like the Andamans via Kolkata.
"It is a war against the Hindus. Awami League could not protect us, even worse, they are now joining hands with Bangladesh Nationalist Party cadres with the sole aim to butcher Hindu minorities," a group of migrants from Barishal and Bhola districts of Bangladesh, who have taken shelter in this town, 12 km from the Hakimpur border, said. The situation after the October one elections, the migrants said, "are worse than that in 1992", when the Babri Masjid demolition in India led to communal tension in the neighbouring country. Bureau Report