Ninth session of the Forum on Minority Issues Palais des Nations Geneva, Switzerland November 24- 25, 2016 Minorities in situation of Humanitarian Crises Presented by Amarendra Roy,President of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist & Christians Unity Council EU And Board of Director Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities An NGO ECOSOC Iteam; Legal Framework and Key Concern Honorable Madam Chair and distinguished participants, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present before you the case of religious and ethnic cleansing that the minorities of Bangladesh have been subjected to for decades, leading to a continuous exodus. Minority situations, its character and nature might differ from country to country but no doubt end result of same which is being experienced by every country is the humanitarian crisis. In Bangladesh, it is the religious, ethnic and indigenous minorities who were ruthlessly subjected to genocide and mass destruction during the nine months war of liberation in 1971. It is a matter of great regret and sorrow that even after 45 years of independence the religious, ethnic and indigenous minorities are the main target of mass atrocities.They are continuously suffering from communal persecution, discrimination, torture and deprivation in all sphere of life. They are also the main target of present terrorism which is being inspired and influenced by Islamic State, Taleban, Al-Qaida. The Hindus, Buddhists and Christians of the country which include approximately 2.5 million indigenous peoples, are being systematically eliminated through blatant discrimination, denial of access to legal protection and violence. Acting with complete impunity, the Muslim nationalists and extremists have conducted pogroms against the minorities whenever they have wanted to, and regardless of which political party has been in power. I am presenting below two recent incident of atrocities on minorities, one in the southern part and the other in northern part of Bangladesh which took place in the last one week i.e. from 30 th October to 6th November, 2016. On 30th October in Village-Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria District, hundreds participants of two Islamic fundamentalist rally took part in three hour attack from 11 am on Hindu’s houses, temples and business establishments. They looted at least 200 houses 17 temples have been demolished. Police and local administration were silent spectators. Local parliament member Md. Sayeedul Haque, who is also a senior cabinet minister, came to his constituency after three days of the incident and abused the victims, the Hindu minorities in filthy languages and blamed the media for alleged exaggeration of the incident. Minister’s statement, five days after the incident, the attackers again torched five houses of Hindus at Nasirnagar On November 4, 2016. The attack of similar type occurred in other parts of several districts namely, Barisal, Thakurgaon, Jessore, Sylhet, Habiganj, Feni, Noagaon, Manikganj, Netrakona and Faridpur. Another incident took place on 6th November, 2016 in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha District where about 1200 sauntal (indigenous) families have been evicted, their houses have been looted and burnt to ashes, four sauntals