Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam at the present time (7 December) impressed the unbiased newspapers and rights groups to attain their very occupy probe into the experiences of assaults on the Hindu community within the submit-revolution days.
“If the authorities does the debunking job, there are strong probabilities that its experiences would possibly be considered with some form of scepticism,” he wrote in a Facebook submit this morning.
Noting this as a “crucial disclose,” Alam wrote Bangladesh has been “unfairly portrayed” in international media and top parliamentary hearings in influential countries.
Some even call for sending UN peacekeepers to Bangladesh — or intervening within the country — basically based completely on these experiences, he stated, adding, “We prefer very most interesting investigations.”
In most fashioned weeks, Alam stated, there agree with been greater efforts by the length in-between authorities and political, religious, and civil society leaders urging other folks to pause smooth all over religiously tinged incidents.
“A few of us agree with shown unprecedented political maturity in these events,” he wrote.
However the Bangladesh Hindu Buddha Christian Harmony Council’s experiences agree with “systematically exaggerated” the violence perpetrated in opposition to the minority other folks, Alam stated.
He stated they hope top secular and liberal newspapers will attain their very occupy probe into the alleged cases of non secular violence reported by the Council.
“We also hope international rights groups corresponding to Human Rights Seek for and Amnesty International will also attain a similar investigations,” the clicking secretary added.
The HRW did an very excellent investigation into the massacres of Hefazat activists in 2013, Alam stated, hoping that HRW will attain a a similar probe.
Alam acknowledged that violence in opposition to minorities happens in Bangladesh.
“We are silent no longer the excellent country to this point as communal harmony is anxious. We hear experiences of discrimination basically based completely on religion,” Alam stated, adding that there are also customary bouts of violence precipitated by allegedly blasphemous Facebook posts.
When the Netra News debunked the Bangladesh Hindu Buddha Christian Harmony Council’s direct on the assaults on the Hindu community within the submit-revolution days, the clicking secretary stated he anticipated the community to do an announcement.
The Netra News direct, Alam stated, confirmed near to all nine Hindu pointless who the minority council claimed to agree with been killed in communal hatred-linked violence used to be linked to other reasons corresponding to political, private and other causes.
The Harmony Council also made a a similar “controversial direct” on the assaults on minorities in Bangladesh in July this twelve months, stated the clicking secretary.
Alam stated the Harmony Council’s experiences agree with a a ways-reaching affect.
When a British MP unbiased these days spoke about the assaults on minorities in Bangladesh, it seems he quoted the Council’s direct, he seen.
The direct on the submit-revolution assaults on Hindus used to be cited more than 11 million instances in social media.
“What I’ve learnt is that the noteworthy and deep-pocketed Hindu American groups, Indian nationwide and regional newspapers, and top Indian commentators cite its direct back to list the dispute of minorities in Bangladesh,” Alam stated.
“Experts knowledgeable me the Harmony Council’s experiences agree with been the single largest supply of misinformation on anti-minority violence in Bangladesh,” he added.
