A Hindu community in Blanchisseuse, Trinidad is in shock after there were 2 attacks on the peaceful Hindu community within a week. A Hindu temple near the Marianne River was vandalized on Sunday by miscreants. The vandals broke some sacred Hindu deities as well as covering the temple with human feces and urine. Local Hindus as well as local members of the Orisha community were devastated after a similar 2nd attack occurred in another smaller Hindu temple nearby.

The Blanchisseuse Hindu temple was consecreated in 2000 by community leader Pujarri Harry Bhukal of the Maha Kali healing temple of Claxton Bay. According to Pujarri Harry Bhukal, he and other members from the local Hindu community went to the temple on Sunday last to prepare the place for a prayer meeting scheduled for this Sunday when they observed that the heads of the 7 elephant statues had been cut off, the base of the temple destroyed, as well as deities of lord Hanuman and Lord Shiva destroyed. He stated that despite the act of hate-based vandalism, he and community members will proceed with their peaceful prayers at the site on Sunday and it is his intention to refurbish the temple and put some additional security measures in place.

The recent attacks on Hindu temples in Trinidad is the not the first time the local Hindu community has faced hate-based attacks and bigotry from extremists. Aside from local miscreants, in the past there have been many hinduphobic attacks on Hindu temples by Islamic and Christian extremists who see Hindu temples as evil and devil-based due to presence of deities in different forms of God.