Mohammed Yunus is rendering religious minority leaders in Bangladesh vulnerable, UN told
The Hindu
New Delhi-based Rights and Risks Analysis Group also said Mr. Yunus had been trivialising the acts of violence against the Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians in Bangladesh by describing them as outcomes of personal disputes, criminal acts, or accidents.
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An Indian rights group has asked the United Nations to help stop Mohammed Yunus, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh, from emboldening the religious fundamentalists in his country by denying attacks on the minorities in his country.
The New Delhi-based Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) also said Mr. Yunus had been trivialising the acts of violence against the Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians in Bangladesh by describing them as outcomes of personal disputes, criminal acts, or accidents.
His denial of atrocities against religious minorities had made the leaders of the Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council extremely vulnerable to further attacks, the RRAG said in an appeal to the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), and the heads of diplomatic missions and international organisations in Dhaka.
In a rejoinder to the Unity Council’s latest report on such atrocities, Mr. Yunus said on March 25: “With respect to the killings, preliminary investigations by the police indicate that these incidents were not connected to communal violence. Rather, these tragic deaths occurred at the hands of troublemakers, driven by a variety of factors such as prior enmity, theft, domestic disputes, and reckless behaviour.”
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On March 13, the Unity Council said violence against religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous communities in Bangladesh continued unabated, as in the past.
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