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Reports indicate that more than 395 churches were razed or burnt down, [3] between 5,600–6,500 houses plundered or burnt down, over 600 villages ransacked and more than 60,000 – 75,000 people left homeless. [4] [5] [6] Other reports put the death toll at nearly 100 and suggested more than 40 women were sexually assaulted.
The perpetrators of are the Bangladeshi military and the Bengali Muslim settlers, who together have burned down Buddhist and Hindu temples, killed many Chakmas, and carried out a policy of gang-rape against the indigenous people. There are also accusations of Chakmas being forced to convert to Islam, many of them children who have been abducted ...
[citation needed] As a result, Muslim mosques, Christian churches, Zoroastrian fire temples [citation needed], Jain and Buddhist temples were converted into Hindu places of worship. Since the dawn of the 20th century, there have been active movements to convert non-Hindu religious sites into temples, primarily in the West [ 1 ] and in India .
In India, where he lived until four months ago, he owned five restaurants. He lost everything during the Covid-19 pandemic. “God has sent me to be among these people,” Moninder Singh said.
Eleven of the priest's ashrams, schools, and orphanages around the state were burned down by the NLFT. In September 2008, Swami Laxmanananda , a popular regional Hindu Guru was murdered along with four of his disciples by unknown assailants (though a Maoist organisation later claimed responsibility for that [ 78 ] [ 79 ] ).
"The church and the entire Christian community not only in Karnataka but all over India and even abroad is terribly angry and upset at the desecration of its sacred places, especially the blessed sacrament in the sanctum sanctorum, which is the Living Body of Christ. For Christians, the blessed sacrament is the most holy religious symbol ...
The state and the Sangha (Buddhist clergy) have maintained a close and reciprocal relationship, with the legitimacy of kingship being conferred only on Buddhists for the purpose of protecting Buddhism. [292] Consequently, Buddhism is given "the foremost place" in the country's constitution, making it the duty of the state to protect and foster it.
The mobs destroyed 24 Buddhist temples and monasteries and 75 houses in reaction to a tagging of an image depicting the desecration of a Quran on the timeline of a fake Facebook account under a Buddhist male name. [3] [4] The actual posting of the photo was not done by the Buddhist who was falsely slandered. [5]