The United Nations has taken a major initiative in the case of killing of protesters during the violence in Bangladesh. A United Nations team will visit Bangladesh for investigation.
A United Nations team will soon visit Bangladesh to investigate the killing of protesters before and after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation last week, it was announced on Wednesday. “UN human rights chief Volker Turk spoke to Bangladesh’s chief adviser on Wednesday over the phone,” Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government, wrote on X. “A UN team will visit the country to investigate (the killings),” Volker told Yunus over the phone.
More than 500 people have died
More than 500 people have been killed in the violence in Bangladesh so far. Yunus, who was sworn in as chief adviser on August 8, said in a post on ‘X’ that the UN human rights chief said that a UN-led investigation will be launched very soon to investigate the killing of protesters.
Attacks on Hindus
Meanwhile, let us also tell you here that the apex body of Hindus in Bangladesh has said that after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5, the minority Hindu community has faced attacks and threats at 278 places in 48 districts. The apex body has termed it an “attack on Hinduism”. Members of the ‘Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance’ (BNHGA) pointed to the increase in attacks in recent days and said that “we also have rights in this country, we were born here.”
Hindu population was targeted
The minority Hindu population was targeted and their properties were looted and several temples were destroyed in the violence that continued for several days after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Sheikh Hasina left the country for India on August 5. The BNHGA press conference came on the same day when Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus met members of the Hindu community at the famous Dhakeshwari temple and urged people to “be patient” before forming an opinion about his government. Yunus took charge as the chief adviser of the interim government on August 8.
