India has strongly criticized recent comments from Bangladesh’s Home Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, accusing the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of dodging responsibility for its own problems. During a media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal called out the government for shifting blame instead of fixing issues at home.
Jaiswal dismissed Chowdhury’s claims as “false and baseless.” He pointed out that Bangladesh struggles to keep law and order and should focus on investigating local extremists. These groups have been linked to violence, arson, and land grabs targeting minority communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. “It would do well to introspect and conduct serious investigations into the actions of local extremists committing violence, arson, and land grabs against the minority communities,” Jaiswal said.
The remarks came in response to Chowdhury’s accusation that India fueled unrest in Bangladesh’s Khagrachari district, part of the Chittagong Hill Tracts region. Tensions there have raised global alarms over attacks on indigenous people and religious minorities in Bangladesh.
Human rights groups are demanding swift action from the Yunus government. Recent clashes in Khagrachari left several indigenous people killed and injured after Bangladeshi security forces carried out arson, looting, and firing. The violence broke out on September 28, sparked by protests calling for justice in the brutal gang-rape of a Marma schoolgirl.
World attention turned to Bangladesh’s human rights crisis this week with an exhibition outside the United Nations in Geneva. Organized by the International Forum for Secular Bangladesh, the two-day display ran alongside the 60th session of the Human Rights Council. It featured 30 panels spotlighting rising radical fundamentalism, communal violence, minority oppression, press freedom crackdowns, mob attacks, and sexual abuse.
Adding to the outcry, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council—a group fighting religious discrimination—blasted Yunus for calling reports of Hindu minority persecution “baseless.” Yunus made the comments in a New York interview with the Global Thinkers Organisation during the UN General Assembly. The council called it a “denial of the truth,” amid growing violence against Hindus and other minorities under the interim government.
These events highlight escalating minority violence in Bangladesh, drawing sharp criticism from people and human rights organizations worldwide. India-Bangladesh relations remain strained as concerns over Chittagong Hill Tracts unrest and human rights in Bangladesh intensify.
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