UNHRC Team in Bangladesh to Investigate Violence Against Minorities

A fact-finding team from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) reached Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to investigate the violence against minorities and others following the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the subsequent change of government, reported India Today.

Hindu minority groups are regularly reporting atrocities against their community members in different parts of Bangladesh, even weeks after Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus took charge as the Chief Advisor of the interim government.

The UNHRC team will stay in Bangladesh for one month to probe the allegations of violence against minorities.

The Hindu minority groups told India Today that they will meet the UNHRC delegation and present evidence of killings, vandalism, and the burning of both public and private properties from July 1 to August 5.

On behalf of the Bangabandhu Foundation, they have requested a meeting with the delegation.

They have also written a letter to UN Secretary-General Ant³nio Guterres, stating that “massive killings” took place and that Hindu communities’ places of worship and residences were vandalised.