Ensuring protection to minority community

Salim Rashid, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Illinois

Photo: Amran Hossain

The only redeeming feature of the distressing news about the burning of a Hindu temple and of Hindu homes in Bangladesh is the apparent absence of injury to individuals, or worse. These senseless attacks are in greater need of immediate justice than even the trial of war criminals. If we adopt the view of the apparent perpetrators for a moment, we are bound to admit that all minorities, and specifically the Hindus, are dhimmi and fully protected. Nothing can be of greater importance than to reassure the minorities by an immediate and transparent provision of justice to them.