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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why did the media in Bangladesh wake up late to the Cumilla attacks? -Tanishka Sodhi

Why did the media in Bangladesh wake up late to the Cumilla attacks? -Tanishka Sodhi

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published Published on Oct 25, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 26, 2021

-Newslaundry.com

From a media blackout to carrying government handouts, Bangladeshi media’s coverage of the recent communal violence is a reflection of declining press freedom.

A little after 2am on October 13, the eighth day of Durga Puja, a man walked into the puja venue at Nanuardighi in Cumilla, Bangladesh. The main idol was curtained off for the night, but near it was an idol of Hanuman. The man placed a book near the Hanuman idol and left. In the morning, the local police received a call that said a Quran, the Islamic holy book, had been found near the Hanuman idol. By the time the police arrived at the venue, a young man was filming the scene and he streamed the police removing the Quran on Facebook.

In no time, news of the incident spread across first Cumilla, and then Bangladesh. Video clips and photographs of the Quran in the Durga Puja venue popped up on messaging platforms and social media. At Nanuardighi, local Muslims demanded the puja be stopped. When the puja organisers refused, a gathered mob vandalised the idols. Tension and unrest spread like wildfire both online and on the ground, triggering some of the worst communal violence that Bangladesh has witnessed in years. Over the next one week, Hindu religious sites, businesses and homes would be vandalised across the country. Seven people would be killed and more than 450 people would eventually be arrested.

Yet if you were looking for news about the Cumilla attacks in mainstream Bangladeshi media on October 13, there was practically nothing.

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Newslaundry.com, 25 October, 2021, https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/10/25/why-did-the-media-in-bangladesh-wake-up-late-to-the-cumilla-attacks?fbclid=IwAR39r1FBf2PXQo0MTAFhImRgBh51qce30sdi47D8ZyFzOl_ndChqqkfM_G4


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