The group claims to be in support of the security of the Hindu minority
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.
“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.
He also said: “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.”
Source: Dhaka Tribune
