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Over 1500 Hindu Temples & Homes Damaged by Muslim Mobs in Bangladesh During January to March of 2013

Over 1500 Hindu Temples & Homes Damaged by Muslim Mobs in Bangladesh During January to March of 2013

(CHAKRA) Extremist Muslim mobs  have attacked innocent Hindu temples, homes and shops of Hindus in four districts in Bangladesh. Since Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was handed down a death sentence for war crimes in February, dozens of hindu temples, houses and shops of non-muslim minorities across the country have been vandalized  torched and looted. Basudev [...]

March 21 2013 | Posted in Featured, Hindu Related, Ignored, World News | Read More »

Muslims Torch and Loot 200 Hindu Homes in West Bengal (Images)

Muslims Torch and Loot 200 Hindu Homes in West Bengal (Images)

By Sandhya Jain (Niti Central) Amidst a near-complete media blackout and distressing silence from statutory bodies like the National Human Rights Commission, a serious communal flare up has taken place in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, with more than 200 Hindu homes torched and looted in four villages — Naliakhali, Herobhanga, Gopalpur and [...]

February 23 2013 | Posted in Featured, Hindu Related, Ignored, World News | Read More »

Pakistani Hindu Refugees Feel Fear 24 hours a Day

Pakistani Hindu Refugees Feel Fear 24 hours a Day

“There is fear 24 hours a day…Hindus see themselves as helpless,” recounted Chetan Ram, while describing life in Pakistan to the Hindu American Foundation’s Director & Senior Human Rights Fellow, Samir Kalra, Esq., at the Chopasni refugee camp in Jodhpur, India. Ram was part of a contingent of 204 Hindu refugees that fled Pakistan’s southern Sindh [...]

February 21 2013 | Posted in Hindu Related, World News | Read More »

Increasing Concern Over Worsening Plight of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs

Increasing Concern Over Worsening Plight of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs

(CHAKRA) The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) voiced serious concern today over the worsening plight of Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan, imploring the Afghan government to address the deteriorating religious freedom conditions in the country. The most recent media reports from Afghanistan indicate that Hindus and Sikhs are being forcibly denied the right to cremate their [...]

December 21 2012 | Posted in Featured, Hindu Related, Sikh Related, World News | Read More »

A History of Hindu Bashing from the BBC even has its Karma

A History of Hindu Bashing from the BBC even has its Karma

In February 2002 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) along with other international broadcast networks reported on the outbreak of communal violence in Godhra, in the Indian state of Gujarat. From the BBC report one would have got the impression that Hindus were not even victims of the violence. Instead Hindus were blamed for the violence [...]

December 8 2012 | Posted in Hinduism, Insight & Analysis | Read More »

HAF Letter to Pakistan Embassy Asks for Restoration of Demolished Temple

HAF Letter to Pakistan Embassy Asks for Restoration of Demolished Temple

(CHAKRA) In the wake of Pakistan’s recent election to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the international body tasked with the “promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe,” a century-old Hindu temple was destroyed in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) formally wrote to the Pakistani [...]

December 8 2012 | Posted in Hindu Related, World News | Read More »

Wandhama Massacre! Some Questions Remain Unanswered! #Kashmir

Wandhama Massacre! Some Questions Remain Unanswered! #Kashmir

Dr. O. P. Sudrania In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. - Abdul Kalam “The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?” ? - George [...]

September 12 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Marathon Hindu Solidarity Protests Happening in London on September 16th

Marathon Hindu Solidarity Protests Happening in London on September 16th

On 16 September 2012 HHR will join with other Hindus and Hindu organisations in what will prove to be a marathon series of protests and prayers across London. Not one but five are planned one after another to highlight issues that should be of concern to Hindus worldwide.We request all Hindus to attend INDIAN HIGH [...]

August 24 2012 | Posted in Hindu Related, World News | Read More »

US Documentary Tour Launched to Promote Pakistani Hindu Refugees

US Documentary Tour Launched to Promote Pakistani Hindu Refugees

(CHAKRA) “We won’t go back. Even if you shoot us we won’t go back,” cried out an elderly Pakistani Hindu woman living in the Dera Dhuni Baba refugee camp in the Indian capital of New Delhi. Her tragic story, along with those of 150 other Hindus from Pakistan’s Sindh province, was recently captured by Indian [...]

July 7 2012 | Posted in Featured, Hindu Related, World News | Read More »

Human Rights Report Released Amidst Worsening Plight of Minorities In Pakistan

Human Rights Report Released Amidst Worsening Plight of Minorities In Pakistan

(CHAKRA)  HAF (Hindu American Foundation) released its eighth annual Hindu human rights report today amidst increased concern over the worsening plight of Hindus in Pakistan. The report, Hindus in South Asia and the Diaspora: A Survey of Human Rights, 2011, documents human rights violations against Hindus in Pakistan as well as seven other countries and regions [...]

March 17 2012 | Posted in Featured, Hindu Related, World News | Read More »