Amid the ongoing violence against the Hindu community in Bangladesh triggered by the exile of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, noble laureate Muhammad Yunus, who has been appointed as the head of the interim gvernment, condemned the attacks and termed it 'heinous'. As per several media reports, the Hindu community in Bangladesh spent anxious hours following the resignation of Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina as Prime Minister last week. Noble peace laureate, Muhammad Yunus has condemned the attack against the Hindu community, terming it 'heinous'.
"Are they not the people of this country? You (students) have been able to save this country; can't you save some families?" Yunus asked the students while delivering an address at a Bangladeshi university. He further affirmed that the people of Bangladesh would stay united. "We fought unitedly and we will stay united", said the noble laureate, adding the atrocities against the Hindus and the other minority communities are 'heinous'.
The protests which started as a call for abolition of the quota system, which provided for 30% reservation in government jobs to the veterans of the 1971 Bangladesh war, later turned into violent attacks against the Hindu community by the Islamist extremist groups. The media reports have said that several Hindu temples across the country, including an International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISCKON) temple in Meherpur, based in Bangladesh's Khulna division, were targeted and vandalised amid.