An influential US lawmaker on Tuesday stated the interim Bangladeshi authorities has an absolute obligation to guard the minority Hindu group within the nation after the autumn of the democratically-elected Sheikh Hasina-led authorities earlier this yr.
Over the weekend, Hindus from Bangladesh organised a rally on the White home demanding launch of Chinmaya Das and safety for Hindus of Bangladesh.
“Bangladesh’s interim authorities has an absolute obligation to guard its Hindu minority and meaningfully tackle the protests of hundreds of minority Hindus in outcry over the latest wave of assaults and harassment,” Congressman Brad Sherman stated in an announcement.
“With the requires an investigation from the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council and the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk for killings and different rights violations in the course of the violent unrest main as much as and after the autumn of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the present administration should reveal management in eliminating acts of violence in opposition to the Hindu group,” Sherman stated.
Utsav Chakrabarti, govt director of HinduACTion known as on the outgoing Biden-Harris administration to take all doable measures to stop additional escalation of violence by radical Islamists in opposition to the Hindus in Bangladesh.
“Based mostly on the suggestions we’re getting from #Bangladesh, Hindu monk and civil rights defender Chinmoy Krishna Brahmachari, who has been incarcerated by the interim authorities, faces a critical menace to his life, in custody,” he stated.
