Indian Americans in Silicon Valley Hold Rally to Show Solidarity with Hindus in Canada and Bangladesh

Indian Americans in Silicon Valley held a solidarity rally for Hindus in Canada and Bangladesh over violence against them in these two countries.

Addressing a gathering of scores of Indian Americans at the Milpitas City Hall, prominent community leaders spoke out about the attacks on the Hindu minority urging US leaders to condemn the human rights violations and hold the Canadian and Bangladesh governments accountable to safeguard their Hindu minority populations.

The Bay Area has over 200,000 Indian Americans. The participants at the rally were disappointed by the poor handling of the attack on Hindu devotees at the Hindu Sabha temple in Brampton where Khalistanis attacked Hindu devotees, a media release said.

People in the rally were raising slogans "Stop khalistani terrorism, protect Canadian-Hindus", "Stop Islamist terrorism, protect Bangladeshi-Hindus".

"We saw videos of Khalistani terrorists invading the temple premises and beating up men, women and children. It was horrible to see Hindus who had gone to celebrate the Diwali festival being hounded by those goons," the release said.

"To make things worse we realized that the police were already compromised by pro Khalistan activists and were beating up Hindu devotees. Freedom of violence is being masqueraded as freedom of expression in Canada. We have completely lost faith in the Trudeau government for protecting the basic human rights of Canadian-Hindus," it said.

Dr Ramesh Japra from Americans for Hindus drew attention to the attacks by Khalistanis on Hindus in Canada and by radical groups in Bangladesh.

"We are one world, one family, one future," he said.

Pushpita Prasad of the Coalition of Hindus in North America (CoHNA) was concerned on how her team in Canada was being targeted and profiled by Sikhs for Justice, an outfit banned in India but operating freely in the US and Canada.