JAMAAT DEMANDS UN INVESTIGATION INTO ATTACKS ON HINDUS

Dhaka, 8 Rabi’ul Awwal 1435/10 January 2014 (MINA) – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, which allegedly attacked the Hindu community, made a counter-allegation against the government and claimed that they had launched the attacks on the minority group.

The Islamist organisation demanded that a United Nations supervised an inquiry into the incident. It also called for ensuring of security of the Hindu minority, Dhaka Tribune quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

“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,” Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Acting Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman said in a statement issued yesterday.

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“We call for an independent inquiry commission comprised of representatives of different human rights 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.”

Bangladesh’s ruling party Awami League (BAL) and a coalition of other parties who were elected in the controversial 10th parliamentary elections have taken their oaths for their new posts on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports.

The oath taking ceremony to allow the new parliamentarians to take up their positions is set amid allegations from the main opposition and constitutional expert that the ruling government has been violating the constitution in keeping two parliaments in operation simultaneously in the country.

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So far the ruling government has not dissolved the ninth parliament before the newly elected MP’s oath taking ceremony. The present 9th parliament started its term on January 25, 2009 and is set to end on January 24, 2014, according to the Bangladesh constitution and therefore the 10th parliament can only start after the termination of ninth parliament on January 24. (T/P09/E1).

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).