US HR report appears to encourage ‘society of lawlessness’: Dhaka

GBNews24 Desk//

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Sunday said the government will ask explanation from the US side on the recently published human rights report noting that there are fundamental flaws in the report.

While briefing reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he said the government will also remain engaged with the US government as there are issues of discussion in a number of areas.

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen was also present at the briefing, reports UNB.

Bangladesh, a country of 170 million, follows rule of law, human rights and good governance and therefore, its economic achievements are significant, said the state minister.

The report appears to encourage creating a “society of lawlessness to destabilize” the society and the government, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a separate press statement

Despite all challenges, the government, for the sake of its own commitment made to the people, will continue its endeavours to improve the wellbeing and ensure the rights and dignity of its people, MoFA said.

The report titled ”Bangladesh 2021 Human Rights Report”, was released on 13 April 2022 by the Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy and Labour of the US Department of State.

The government took note of all the observations therein collected mainly from the NGO/INGO sources of reporting.

Information/data has also been collected from newspapers that surely suggest that the media is able to exercise their way of reporting things, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the statement after the briefing.

While a number of unsubstantiated figures vis-a-vis human rights situation posed the purpose of the source questionable, there are also a few factual errors in the report.