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Podcast: Mission Network News - Asia
Episode: Religious minorities still face violence in Bangladesh
Description: Bangladesh (MNN) — Bangladesh will soon begin extraditing former prime minister Sheikh Hasina from neighboring India to face charges related to mass killings.
More than a thousand people were killed and hundreds injured during a crackdown on student-led protests against Hasina’s government in July and August. Religious minorities quickly became a target. More about that here.
“When the government collapsed, the police pulled back from their areas, and the streets were like the Wild West,” FMI’s Patrick Anthony says.
Things have since calmed in the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, but violence con...