The country's minorities have been the target of attack of the reactionary forces after Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death Thursday for war crimes in the Liberation War, minority leaders said yesterday.

Following the trend of the 1971 atrocities, nearly a thousand minority houses and around 50 worship centres were attacked in the last two days, said Advocate Rana Das Gupta, general secretary of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddha-Christian Oikya Parishad.

Houses and businesses of the minority people were burnt in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Noakhali, Gaibandha, Rangpur, Sylhet, Thakurgaon,

Bagerhat and Chapainawabganj, he told journalists at Chittagong Press Club.

Rana accused Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir of the atrocities. He mentioned that Rejaul Karim, chairman of Choroti Union Parishad, was involved in the attacks in Satkania and municipality councillors Abu and Amir in Banshkhali.

"Besides, Aminur Rahman Chowdhury, an accused in the 2003 Banshkhali carnage case for burning 11 of a Hindu family to death at Shilpara has planned the attacks in Banshkhali,” he added.

The organisation urged all to resist such atrocities and demanded that the government immediately arrest and try the culprits and rehabilitate the victims and the houses of worship.