15 Hindus Killed In Bangladesh In Past 45 Days: Rights Group | World News

New Delhi-based rights group Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) has claimed that at least 15 members of the Hindu minority community have been killed by members of the Muslim majority in Bangladesh in the last 45 days.

“In the last 45 days between December 1, 2025 and January 15, 2026, at least 15 minority Hindus were killed by persons belonging to the majority Muslims in Bangladesh; one Hindu was killed every three days,” RRAG Director Suhas Chakma said on Thursday.

“Among the murdered victims were elderly women like Suborna Roy and teenagers like 18-year-old Shanta Chandra Das. All the murder cases were premeditated and usually the assets of the victims who were taken away in rickshaws like Samir Das and Shanta Chandra Das were targeted. Some murders were committed Taliban style by slitting their throats like Rana Pratap Bairagi, Shanto Chandra Das, Jogesh Chandra Roy and Suborna Roy,” Chama added.

According to the RRAG Director, these killings are just the tip of the iceberg of other daily acts of violence against Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh and there has been no media coverage of this violence.

“This extreme vulnerability of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh poses a new challenge. Unlike previous governments, be it Awami League or Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the Interim government led by Chief Counselor Muhammad Yunus generally ignores any religious perspective on these attacks before investigating the killings,” he said.

Yunus, Principal Advisor on the RRAG report, said India has constructed such a narrative to dismiss attacks on Hindu minorities as a disinformation campaign.

He (Yunus) went one step further and on January 13, 2026, he approached the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, for technical assistance against disinformation campaigns during the elections.

Chakma further said, “Attacks on Hindu minorities during the election campaign will be treated as a ‘disinformation campaign’ in the friendly elections between former alliance partners BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.” he said.

RRAG said that when the election campaign begins on January 22, minorities, especially Hindus, will face unprecedented violence due to their religious beliefs.

These acts of violence against Hindu minorities will be considered “political violence” as Yunus described the mass attacks on Hindu minorities in August 2024 as attacks on the Awami League.

In the RRAG statement, it was stated that Ivars Ijabs, Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) in Bangladesh, called for “inclusive” and “participatory” elections to be held on January 11, covering all small ethnic communities, religious minority groups and regional groups.

The statement stated that in the current atmosphere of systematic attacks, Hindu minorities are unlikely to participate in the elections if the interim government in Bangladesh does not recognize the attacks against Hindu minorities due to their religious beliefs and does not take the necessary measures to ensure their inclusive participation.

RRAG called on all stakeholders sending election observers, including the European Union, to intervene in Bangladesh’s interim government to ensure inclusive participation of Hindu and other minorities and to further monitor acts of violence against indigenous peoples/ethnic communities and religious minority groups during the election process.

According to RRAG, minority Hindus Samir Das and Prolay Chaki, killed on January 11, 2026; Joy Mohapatra on January 10, 2026; Mithun Sarkar and Sarat Mani Chakraborty on January 6, 2026; Rana Pratap Bairagi on January 5, 2026; Khokon Chandra Das on 31 December 2025; Bajendra Biswas on 29 December 2025; Amrit Mondal on December 24, 2025; Dipu Chandra Das on 18 December 2025; Shanto Chandra Das on December 12, 2025; Jogesh Chandra Roy and Suborna Roy on 7 December 2025; and Prantosh Kormokar and Utpol Sarkar on December 2, 2025.