“Bangladesh govt head Muhammad Yunus tries to invent excuses for targeted killings of Hindus by Islamists, claims murders and loot are ‘exaggerated’”, Opindia, September 6, 2024:
“Exaggerated”. This is what Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor to the interim government in Bangladesh said about the ongoing onslaught against the Hindus. In an interview with news agency PTI, Yunus said that the violence against Hindu minorities is not communal, but a “result of Hindus becoming synonymous with the deposed Awami League in the eyes of the attackers.”
Yunus further tried to contextualise the Islamist violence against the Hindu minority saying that he told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that there were several ‘dimensions’ to the issue. Giving the anti-Hindu pogroms unleashed by Islamists following the fall of Sheikh Hasina in early August saying that all those who ‘sided’ with the Awami League were attacked.
“I have said this to Modi also that this is exaggerated. This issue has several dimensions. When the country went through an upheaval following the atrocities by (Sheikh) Hasina and the Awami League, those who were with them also faced attacks,” Yunus said……”
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