Vivek Ramaswamy slams violence against Bangladesh Hindus amid protests, calls out victimhood laced quota systems

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has denounced the targeted violence against Hindus amid unrest in Bangladesh, and called out the “victimhood-laced quota systems” of the country. In a long post on X, the entrepreneur explained the quota protests in Bangladesh, and said that “bloodshed” is always the endpoint of grievances and victimhood.

The 39-year-old, who quit the White House race and endorsed Donald Trump in January, detailed in the post on the microblogging site as to how a quota system created to correct the “wrongs of rape and violence” in 1971 War has led to more such incidents in 2024.

“The targeted violence against Hindus in Bangladesh is wrong, it’s concerning, and it’s a cautionary tale for victimhood-laced quota systems,” he tweeted.

“Bangladesh fought a bloody war for its independence in 1971. Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi civilians were raped and murdered. It was a tragedy, and it was rightly mourned,” Ramaswamy’s tweet read.

Writing on the quota systems, which triggered the countrywide protests in Bangladesh in June, the Republican said that despite it proving to be a “disaster” and the former Sheikh Hasina-led government scrapping most of it in 2018, the “victim-patrons fought back and the quota system was reinstated this year”.

“Once chaos begins, it can’t easily be reined in. Radicals are now targeting Hindu minorities. A quota conflict created to rectify the wrongs of rape and violence in 1971 is now leading to more rape and violence in 2024. Bloodshed is the endpoint of grievance and victimhood,” he tweeted.

Vivek Ramaswamy ended the tweet with a reference to the US, saying that it’s difficult to not look at the Bangladesh crisis and wonder what “lessons” Americans can learn.

“It’s hard not to look at Bangladesh and wonder what lessons we would do well to learn right here at home,” the post read.