Dhaka, May 3 (bdnews24.com)—Minority leaders have asked the government to go public with the investigation report on the 2001 post-polls violence on minorities.
Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad—a platform of minorities—made the call from a news conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity on Tuesday.
The organisation also demanded a special cell under the home ministry to immediately redress repression on religious minorities and indigenous communities.
A judicial probe commission submitted the 1,078-page report to home minister Shahara Khatun on Apr 24.
The report blamed dissimilarity in political philosophy, endeavour for establishing communal ideology and weaknesses of the caretaker government for the violent repression on the Hindu religious minority and opposition activists immediately after the Oct 2001 national elections.
The organisation's general secretary Rana Dashgupta sought immediate action against the perpetrators of the grisly attacks on the Hindus and their property, compensation for the affected people and formation of a short-term committee or commission in every district in line with the judicial commission's recommendations.
After receiving the report on Apr 24, Shahara said necessary steps would be taken in line with the recommendations and the report would be put to public domain.
Main opposition BNP— which won the 2001 parliamentary elections along with Jamaat-e-Islami—already rejected the report terming it 'politically motivated and biased'.
But Dashgupta insisted that the report was based on genuine incidents of atrocities and said, "BNP is trying to suppress the truth by rejecting the report."
The organisation, at the same time called for reinstating the original constitution of 1972 in accordance with the Supreme Court order to wipe out all the religious discriminations.
Oikya Parishad president C R Datta Bir Bikram and other key figures of the organisation also attended the conference.
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