Mohammed Yunus is rendering religious minority leaders in Bangladesh vulnerable, UN told

Mohammed Yunus, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh.
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GUWAHATI

An Indian rights group has requested the United Nations to assist cease Mohammed Yunus, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh, from emboldening the religious fundamentalists in his nation by denying assaults on the minorities in his nation.

The New Delhi-based Rights and Dangers Evaluation Group (RRAG) additionally stated Mr. Yunus had been trivialising the acts of violence towards the Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians in Bangladesh by describing them as outcomes of non-public disputes, felony acts, or accidents.

His denial of atrocities towards religious minorities had made the leaders of the Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council extraordinarily weak to additional assaults, the RRAG stated in an attraction to the UN Secretary Normal, the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), and the heads of diplomatic missions and worldwide organisations in Dhaka.

In a rejoinder to the Unity Council’s newest report on such atrocities, Mr. Yunus stated on March 25: “With respect to the killings, preliminary investigations by the police point out that these incidents weren’t related to communal violence. Relatively, these tragic deaths occurred by the hands of troublemakers, pushed by a wide range of elements akin to prior enmity, theft, home disputes, and reckless behaviour.”

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On March 13, the Unity Council stated violence towards religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous communities in Bangladesh continued unabated, as in the previous.

“In January and February, 92 incidents of violence focusing on minorities and indigenous communities have occurred, together with 11 murders, three circumstances of rape, 25 assaults on temples, one allegation of religious disrespect, six assaults on indigenous communities, 38 incidents of assaults, vandalism, and looting of properties and companies, two circumstances of job dismissals, and 6 different assaults,” the Unity Council’s report stated.

The RRAG stated Mr. Yunus, with none investigation into any acts of violence towards Hindus, said on September 5, 2024 that these assaults have been politically motivated. 4 months later, the police substantiated his assertion by an allegedly manufactured investigation.

“The assertions of Mr. Yunus and the Bangladesh Police that there have been no assaults primarily based on religious perception are opposite to a conclusive discovering of the UNHCHR, which investigated at his invitation,” RRAG director Suhas Chakma stated on Wednesday.

He stated the UN physique’s report, launched on February 12, revealed Ahmadiyya Muslims have been subjected to violent assaults by the mobs, aside from Hindus and the indigenous teams in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Focused assaults on the religious minorities and destruction of their homes and locations of worship have been usually underneath the pretext of revenge towards Awami League supporters, he added.

In search of the worldwide group’s intervention, Mr. Chakma stated Mr. Yunus’ statements have been unbecoming of a head of the federal government, and by condoning the violence as regular felony acts, he was inciting radicals to focus on the nation’s religious minorities.