“India, Bangladesh, and the Hindu Minority Crisis: A Strategic, Legal, and Civilisational Assessment Under the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine”, My Ind Maker, December 21, 2025
“The rapid political meltdown in Bangladesh following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government has triggered an unprecedented wave of organised violence against the Hindu minority. This violence, visible in the past year but intensified dramatically in the last several days, includes targeted killings, arson, assaults on women, desecration of temples, and mass displacement. Bangladesh’s transitional government has failed to provide security, and non-state extremist actors have exploited the instability.
India, as the region’s largest power and the civilisational homeland of the Hindu population of East Bengal, faces a dilemma with profound humanitarian, strategic, and geopolitical implications. The crisis challenges India’s regional leadership ambitions, its historical responsibilities arising from the 1947 Partition, and its growing global position as a defender of democratic norms and human rights.
The article argues that India must seriously consider invoking the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine—an UN-endorsed framework that obliges states and the international community to intervene (including with limited force) when a state fails to protect its population from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, or crimes against humanity…..”
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