BANGLADESH Broken promises push Christians, Hindus and Buddhists to go on a hunger strike

Some 500 people, mostly members of the country’s religious minorities, will stop eating to protest the failure of the ruling Awami League to protect minority rights, which is driving many out of the country. For Nirmol Rozario, a Catholic, the hunger strike is a way “to defend our existence”.

 

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