Bangladesh Unity Council informs Congresswoman about Minority Security Risks
সংখ্যালঘু নিরাপত্তা ঝুঁকি কংগ্রেসওম্যানকে জানাল ঐক্য পরিষদ - Bhorer Kagoj
Unity Council informs
Congresswoman about Minority Security Risks
Paper Reporter
Published: Dec. 10, 2023, 7:29 p.m. Updated: Dec. 10, 2023,
8:35 p.m.
সংখ্যালঘু নিরাপত্তা ঝুঁকি কংগ্রেসওম্যানকে জানাল ঐক্য পরিষদ
The Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya (Unity) Parishad
(Council, BHBCUC) has informed Congresswoman Grace Meng, a member of the
Bangladesh Caucus of the United States House of Representatives, about the
security of minority citizens during the upcoming elections in Bangladesh. In
response, Grace Meng said that it is the responsibility and duty of every
government to guarantee the protection of minority citizens and the United
States considers this issue to be of great importance. She also assured that she
would discuss with other members of the caucus in Bangladesh in the US Congress
to find a permanent solution to the problem of minority repression during the
election.
These words were discussed at an hour-long meeting held in
New York City's Fresh Meadows on Friday evening local time in the United
States. This information was given in a press release of the organization
later. Prof Nabendu Dutta, Rupkumar Bhowmick, Dr Dilip Nath, Bhajan Sarkar,
Bhabatosh Mitra, Pranabendu Chakraborty, Sushil Sinha and Dr Dwijen
Bhattacharya narrated the incidents of minority repression in Bangladesh to the
US Congresswoman. They also told the congresswoman about who was committing
this torture, what their motives were, and what role any government had so far
played in stopping this communal terror.
Handing over various documents of minority torture to Hon. Grace
Meng, they expressed deep apprehension about the security of minorities in
Bangladesh in the upcoming election. Apart from this, the background of the
genocide of 1971, the history of the birth of secular Bangladesh, the detailed
story of the sufferings of the minority communities during the War of
Liberation, the rehabilitation of religious extremists-fundamentalists in
politics despite the ban on religious politics in the first constitution of the
country, and the constitutionally making Islam the state religion, turning the
birthright-secular Bangladesh into a de facto religious state, forced minorities
to leave the country in the face of persecution, the rate and number of
representation of Hindus, Buddhists and Christians in the total population of
the country has decreased to an incredible extent. A statistical prediction was
also conveyed to the congresswoman about the reasons for the departure and the
fact that it would take only thirty (more) years for the minority communities
to cease to exist in Bangladesh.
The speakers told the Congresswomen that according to them,
the secular character of Bangladesh and the existence of minority communities
are being endangered mainly for two reasons. The first is the political
alliance and formation of morchas (coalitions) between the two main political
parties, Awami League and BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist party), with racist terrorists;
And the second is to never bring those religious extremists and fundamentalists
who are persecuting minorities to justice for appeasing them.
Referring to the incidents of 2001-2006, they said the
report prepared on the basis of the investigation of the barbaric atrocities on
the minority communities by the BNP and (Islamist) Jamaat-e-Islami alliance, in
which there are names of 2,600 criminals who are directly triable among the
thousands of identified communal terrorist criminals, which was handed over to
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the Judge Shahabuddin Commission in 2011. They
also claim that terrorists are encouraging the expulsion of minorities from the
country through violence. Speakers said that as a result of this sad role of
the ruling Awami League government, which claims to be a “progressive” party, but
since the brutal attack on Buddhists by more than 25,000 fundamentalists in
Ramu in 2012, there have been numerous incidents of torture one after another,
which the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could have prevented if it
wanted.
When the speakers expressed deep concern about the safety
of minority citizens during the upcoming elections, the Congresswoman wanted to
know why. Then the speakers described the election victory by raping 200 Hindu
girls in a spot in Charfashion (in Bhola Island) one night immediately after
the 2001 election, at that time 98 percent of the raped (girls and) women
belonged to the (cleansed) minority community and later burnt the houses of the
minority communities of the country, looted them, destroyed the deities and
places of worship of the Gods and Goddesses, brutally tortured and killed them
and forced them to leave the country empty-handed whose documents were handed over
to the Congresswoman.
Congresswoman Grace Meng said she sincerely wants a free
and fair election in Bangladesh in a peaceful environment so that all citizens
of the country, including minority citizens, can participate safely. “It is the
duty and responsibility of every government to guarantee the protection of its
minority citizens, and the United States considers this matter of great
importance,” she said. She also assured that she would discuss with other
members of the caucus in Bangladesh in the US Congress to find a permanent
solution to the problem of minority repression during the election. Later, when
Congresswoman Grace Meng expressed her desire to visit Bangladesh, everyone
present at the meeting thanked her and requested them to help the minority
community and progressive forces of Bangladesh so that the 1972 constitution,
i.e. secular democracy, is restored in Bangladesh.
(Since Partition of India in 1947, from East Pakistan, now
Bangladesh 50 to 60 million indigenous Hindu minorities are missing, including over
3 million killed, including large number of Buddhists Christians, and tribals – a very small
minority compared to Hindu minority – are also missing, plus confiscation of millions of acres of land and tens of thousands of homesteads using Islamic Republic of Pakistan's Enemy Property Act that allowed confiscation of properties of homes of indigenous Hindu minority. See https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2022/04/bengals-hindu-holocaust-partition-of.html
)
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