The Hindu community in Bangladesh has endured severe persecution over the decades, starting with the Direct Action Day in 1946 and continuing through various violent periods such as the Noakhali genocide in 1946, the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, and recurrent pogroms, including those in 1992 and 2024. These atrocities, characterised by massacres, rapes, abductions, and systematic destruction of Hindu properties, have led to a significant decline in the Hindu population from 28% in 1940 to 8.96% in 2011.