HumanRights

The Night of the Lost Nose-Rings: The Pogroms That Defined Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh and Why Her Record Cannot Be Sanitised

Anyone portraying Khaleda Zia as anything other than a shrewd political operator with a long record of hostility toward Bangladesh’s Hindu minority should remember one phrase that still haunts survivors: “The Night of the Lost Nose-Rings.” History is not a matter of image management. It is a record of human suffering. And few chapters in …

Trapped and Set Ablaze: How Four Hindu Families in Rauzan (Bangladesh) Escaped an Attempt to Burn Them Alive

Four Hindu families narrowly escaped death in what local activists have described as a clear attempt at murder  in Ward Nos. 7 and 8 of Rauzan, Chattogram on 18th December 2025.  According to the ground report of local Hindu activist Liton Kumar Sharma, the homes of Babul Das, Bimal Talukdar and Pramod Talukdar were deliberately …