Hill Voice, 23 May 2026, Special Correspondent: The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) has released a national documentation report titled “The Persecution Continues: Minority Communities Under Sustained Attack in Bangladesh”, covering January–April 2026.
The report documents 505 incidents across 62 districts and all 8 divisions of Bangladesh, including killings and suspicious deaths, physical assaults, kidnappings, sexual violence, attacks on temples and religious institutions, land grabbing, arson, looting, intimidation, and blasphemy-related persecution.
This four-month documentation report presents one of HRCBM’s most comprehensive recent civil-society assessments of continuing human-rights violations affecting Hindu and other religious and ethnic minority communities in Bangladesh.
The findings indicate that the documented incidents are not isolated or localized events, but reflect recurring patterns of violence, intimidation, sexual abuse, land dispossession, religious attacks, mob aggression, and institutional protection failures affecting minority communities across the country.
Particularly on the Indigenous and Ethnic Minority vulnerability, the report states that the registry includes incidents affecting Indigenous and ethnic minority communities, particularly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and related regions. These incidents involve land-related attacks, physical assault, threats, political intimidation, and community insecurity.
The report also said, “This pattern should be treated separately because Indigenous communities often face a layered vulnerability involving ethnic identity, land rights, militarization, displacement pressure, and weak legal protection.
Towards the end of the report, different sets of recommendations are structured by responsible stakeholder groups addressing the Government of Bangladesh, Police and Prosecutorial Services, Judiciary and NHRC, International Actors (UN, EU, US State, UK FCDO, Commonwealth and Diplomatic Missions) and Media and Digital Platforms.
The Recommendations to the Government of Bangladesh are as follows:
● Establish an independent national enquiry into documented violence and persecution affecting religious, ethnic and Indigenous minorities during the January-April 2026 reporting period.
● Create a centralized minority-rights incident monitoring mechanism covering killings, suspicious deaths, sexual violence, abduction, temple attacks, land grabbing, arson, looting, extortion, and intimidation.
● Ensure immediate protection for high-risk victims, witnesses, families, religious institutions, and minority-populated localities.
● Establish special administrative monitoring for minority land and property disputes, particularly where there are allegations of forged documents, intimidation, forced occupation, or court-order violations.
● Provide survivor-centered medical, psychosocial, legal and rehabilitation support for victims of sexual violence, abduction, and coercive marriage or conversion-related cases.
● Ensure protection of temples, cremation grounds, religious festivals, and secred community properties.
● Create district-level early-warning mechanisms for rumour-driven violence, election related intimidation, and attacks on minority communities.