PLACE: Bagholbari Koi village, Chatmohor upazila, Pabna

DESCRIPTION: Musclemen of a local influential with links to Jamaat-e-Islami damaged an indigenous people's temple and forcibly seized a piece of crop land at Bagholbari Koi village in Chatmohor upazila of Pabna a month ago, setting off a wave of panic.

Since then, all the male members of some 32 Mahato families in the village have been fleeing their homes, fearing harassment by police, who, they say, have been siding with the influential Abdus Sattar, a wealthy man loyal to Jamaat-e-Islami.

Left behind, the women and children of the families allege that, in the absence of their men, they are now living in anguish amid intimidation by Sattar's men and frequent threats of crossfire by police.

The villagers alleged that the men of Abdus Sattar, acting on earlier threats, seized a piece of 88 decimals of cropland and forcibly reaped paddy from the field on April 21. When villagers protested, the musclemen injured an indigenous member named Abas.

"They (Sattar) want to evict us from our land, on which we have been living for years. Some 144 families in four villages are under threat of eviction," said Sreebas Chandra Mahato, president of Handial Union Adibashi Samabay Samity.

Since then, their attempts to seek justice have only added to their woes, resulting in further harassment that underscores the extent of police bias, they said. Guided by a NGO called Samata, the indigenous villagers went to file a case, but local police refused them, said Chibas Das Mahato, one of the affected.

Police, however, recorded a case of Abdus Sattar accusing 25 indigenous men and 5 Bengali men, including a Samata worker, Golam Maola, for reaping the paddy.

As the villagers were making preparations to file the case with a magistrate court, Sattar's men raided their village on the night of April 23, the villager alleged. Finding no men, they beat up female members, including Chandana Rani, Molina, Dipali and Bonoda.

Among those who participated in the raid were Sattar's wife, Feroza Begum, his sons Shariful, Faruk, his relatives Fazlu, Rajab, Bellal, Samad and others unknown, according to villagers. The attackers left the village by the temple road, threatening to kill the villagers and destroy their temple if they dared to file a case. On the following morning, the villagers discovered their temple was destroyed, their Gods and Goddesses toppled to the ground.

SOURCE: 24 May, 2005, The Daily Star.

DATE: November 18, 2003

PLACE: Banskhali coast, Chittagong

DESCRIPTION: Eleven members of a family, including a four-day-old baby, were burnt to death as robbers set fire to a two-storey earthen house in a remote village at BanskHali coast, 30 miles off Chittagong city. The 11 charred bodies lay in rows on the floor of the burnt house as the only survivor of the arson, Bimalendra Shushil, narrated the horror. The incident occurred when about 20 robbers raided the house of Tajendra Lal Shushil at Shilpara of Banshkhali upazila at around 12:30am. Police arrested march 9, 2004 the prime accused Mahbub Rashid, 30 of the sensational Banshkhali carnage. Mahbub named Mokhtar as leader of the gang and again said Dola Meah led the attackers. Replying to a query, Mahbub quoted Mokhtar as saying a local BNP leader and union parishad chairman, who is nephew of a state minister Zafor Ahmed Chowdhury, hired them to do an important job but they did not know what the job was.

NAME: Biva Rani Singha

PERSONAL: Higher Secondery Examinee

DATE: April 22, 2003

PLACE: Chitalmari, Bagerhat.

PERSONAL: Biva Rani Singha, daughter of Binoy Singha of Chitalmari Upazila in Bagerhat district and a HSC examinee from local Bangabandhu Women’s College, was abducted by a gang of miscreants at gunpoint from Bakerganj Bazar on April 22 and mercilessly tortured for about a week.

DATE: April 27, 2003.

PLACE: Shibaloy, Manikgonj

DESCRIPTION: Family of Hindu Priest DESCRIPTION: Gang of terrorists gangraped an adolescent girl of a Hindu priest Shyamal Thakur in presence of her parents at Areya village. The BNP-Jamaat alliance government had created an ugly situation across the country unleashing rape and terrorism on the opposition leaders and activists as well as members of the minority community since coming to power.

DATE: October 10, 2002.

PLACE: Keranigonj, Dhaka.

DESCRIPTION: The BNP terrorist forcedly occupied two  house of minorities families beating them out in and broke this idle.

DATE: October 10, 2002.

PLACE: Keranigonj, Dhaka.

DESCRIPTION: The BNP terrorist forcedly occupied two  house of minorities families beating them out in and broke this idle.

DATE: July 16, 2002.

PLACE: Rajshahi.

DESCRIPTION: The BNP terrorist forcedly occupied two  house of minorities families beating them out in Rajshahi.

NAME: Madan Gopal Goswami.

AGE: 55.

DATE: April 28, 2002.

PLACE: Manikchari, Khagrachari.

PERSONAL: A Hindu Priest.

DESCRIPTION: He was stabbed to death in his shrine at midnight by Jubadal terrorists, youth front of BNP.

NAME: Monk Gyan Joyeti.

AGE: 58.

DATE: April 21, 2002.

PLACE: Raojan, Chittagong.

PERSONAL: A Buddhist Priest.

DESCRIPTION: The cadres of Advisor on Parliamentary Affairs to Prime Minister Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury slaughtered him. His head was completely separated from the body in his shrine during midnight.

NAME: Shuvol Mondal.

AGE: 55.

DATE: February 27, 2002.

PLACE: Chatmohor, Pabna.

PERSONAL: AL leader from minority Christain community.

DESCRIPTION: The attackers came, ransacked and looted all the useful things of this Christian family & they brutally beat him up severely.

NAME: Gopal Krishan Muhuri.

AGE: 60.

DATE: November 16, 2001.

PLACE: Chittagong.

PERSONAL: He was an Principle of Nijirhat College and a Freedom Fighter and leader of Workers Party . DESCRIOPTION: A mafia style execution that shocked the nation. Police have arrested Four Party Alliance cadres Nasir and Montu in this connection and the have openly confessed Parliamentary Advisor to Prime Minister Salahuddin Quader leaders is there Godfather.

DATE: October 17, 2001.

PLACE: Durgapur, Kahalu Upazila, Bogra.

DESCRIPTION: The BNP terrorists of broke this idol of 'Goddess Durga'. It was a common spectacle around the country after the general election of 2001. Thousands of images worshiped all over Bangladesh was desecrated.

NAME: Renuka Adhikari.

AGE: 37.

DATE: October 16, 2001.

PLACE: Ramshil, Gopalgonj.

PERSONAL: Member of Agailjhara Union Parishad, local government.

DESCRIPTION: She wails out her tale of rape, torture and loot.

NAME: Alo Barai.

AGE: 60.

DATE: October 2, 2001.

PLACE: Ramshil, Gopalgonj.

PERSONAL: A Old women.

DESCRIPTION: Following night of the voting day, the BNP activists attacked her and broken one of her hand.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Mirsarai, Chittagong.

DESCRIPTION: A mother lays wreathes on the grave of site of her son, brutally killed on post election violence.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Ramshil, Gopalgonj.

DESCRIPTION: Rape victims at hands of BNP-Jamaat cadres.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Char Fashion, Bhola.

PERSONAL: She is a wife of Khudiram, who was a rickshaw puller.

DESCRIPTION: She breaks down on hearing news of her husband Khudiram's death at the hand of BNP killers.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Ramshil and Kotalipara, Gopalgonj.

DESCRIPTION: The  Home Minister flew past over Ramshil village in a helicopter and commented : "There is no refugee in Ramshil". In protest, the refugees and the villagers assembled in front of the UP Office. About 15 thousand Hindu men and women have taken shelter in there.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Gangni, Meherpur, Kushtia.

DESCRIPTION: Due to their perceive support for secular ideas of Awami League religious minorities have seen subjected to "systematic and severe" Persecution (Amnesty International) since October 2001 Election's. Even a poster of Jesus Christ of this Christian family in Meherpur was not spared.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Gangni, Meherpur, Kushtia.

DESCRIPTION: Due to their perceive support for secular ideas of Awami League religious minorities have seen subjected to "systematic and severe" Persecution (Amnesty International) since October 2001 Election's. Even a poster of Jesus Christ of this Christian family in Meherpur was not spared.

NAME: Shefali Sarkar.

AGE: 40.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Barisal.

PERSONAL: Member of Union Parishad, local government.

DESCRIPTION: Herself a victim, she broke down when telling of their torture, 'Please stop this indignity and animal torture', she told visitors.

DATE: October, 2001.

PLACE: Ramshil, Gopalgonj.

DESCRIPTIOIN: About 10 thousand people, mostly minorities of Gouranadi and Agailjhara upazilas of Barisal have taken shelter in neighboring Gopalganj district. Since the announcement of the unofficial results of October 1 general election, the 4-party men, mainly of BNP, started attacks of the AL leaders, workers and supporters, and repression on women. Here the victims are seen in a protest meeting.