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| Jamaat demands UN investigation into attacks on Hindus |
| 2014-01-10 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition.... , which is alleged to have attacked the Hindu community, also made a counter-allegation against the government that it launched attacks on the minority group. The Islamist organization demanded that a United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... -supervised inquiry commission probe into the incident of attacks on the Hindu minority. It also called for ensuring of security of the religious group. "We have been observing with great concern that the government has been carrying out attacks on the minority establishments across the country in a pre-planned way to create an anarchic situation," acting Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami said in a statement issued yesterday. He also said: "We call for an independent inquiry commission comprised of representatives of different human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... bodies of the world under the direct supervision of the United Nations to reveal the real fact, and an end to the ongoing violence against the minorities immediately." |
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