Members of the minority Shia Muslim community across the country are suffering from a great sense of insecurity following the attacks on Hussaini Dalan in the capital and Shia Mosque in Bogra.
Most of the community people now do not stay out of their homes unless it is something very important.
The Shia community people are planning to submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister and Home Minister to ensure their security.
Meer Julfiqar Ali, president of the Hussaini Welfare Association, yesterday said: “We still believe it was not done by Sunni people.”
It was the doings of some quarters who are trying to create instability in the society, he said.
Asked about security, Julfiqar said: “Law enforcers are now providing security to us but still we are passing days in panic.”
When asked about the security of the Shia community Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Detective Branch (DB) of police, said law enforcers had already been deployed around the Shia mosques.
Meanwhile, visiting the Lalbagh and Mohammadpur Shia mosque area of the capital, this correspondent found gun-toting law enforcers guarding the gate of the mosque.
This correspondent found the people of the Shia community panic-stricken In Bogra. They hardly talk to any unknown person.
Asked, Mujaffar Hossain, member secretary of the Bangladesh Imamia Welfare Association, said after such horrendous attacks it is very natural for the community to be scared.
According to locals, there are nearly 130 Shia families in Shibganj of Bogra.
The security measures to protect Shia people in Khulna district was also beefed up.
Sayed Ibrahim Khalil Rajavi, the principal of the Shia-run Islamic Education Center, said: “Although police had been deployed in our mosques and madrasas we hired two organistations to provide security to the community people.”
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said special instruction had already been given to law enforcers to provide security to Shia community.
