POBNEWS24, Dhaka, Nov 24, 2025 : The US Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council has asked the country’s law enforcement members to apologize immediately for failing to prevent minority persecution in Bangladesh. The speakers made this demand to the UN Secretary-General at the organization’s annual general meeting recently, saying that in order to join the peacekeeping mission, the Bangladesh law enforcement officers must apologize in clear language through High Commissioner for Human Rights Falkner Turk for the persecution of minorities and promise that there will be no persecution of minorities in Bangladesh in the future. The meeting also asked Secretary-General Guterres to advise him to permanently end the persecution of minorities in the country, just as the law enforcement officers in Bangladesh, ignoring the instructions of the elected government in the face of Falkner Turk’s warning message in August 2024, ensured the fall of the Hasina government.
The meeting, chaired by the chairman of the board of directors of the organization, Professor Nabendu Dutta, and moderated by General Secretary Bishnu Gope, was held for five hours on Friday evening at the Golden Years Community Center in Floral Park, New York. The meeting was attended by the three presidents of the organization, Dr. Thomas Dulu Roy, Dr. Dwijen Bhattacharya and Ranbir Barua, and the chairman of the board of trustees, Sushil Kumar Saha, and more than 150 members. A press release in this regard was given to the media by the organization.
The meeting was attended by leaders of various organizations including Hindu Heritage of New York, United Hindus of USA, Bangladesh Puja Samiti, Sri Krishna Bhakta Sangha, Geeta Sangha, Radhamadham Mandir, Mahamaya Mandir, Jagannath Hall Alumni Association, and representatives of Buddhist, Christian and tribal communities of the Chittagong Plains and Hill Tracts, who called on Dr. Yunus strongly condemned the failure and indifference of the government and expressed deep concern. In addition to describing the recent incidents of atrocities on minorities in some of their countries, he also presented the history of who committed the horrific minority torture incidents starting from October 2001, including Ramu, Nasirnagar, Muradnagar, Santhia, Nanuar Dighi Par, and what role each government played in it for the new generation.
The speakers at the meeting addressed Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the head of the interim government of Bangladesh, and said that instead of denying the incidents of minority torture, the fundamentalists and extremists responsible for the crimes of minority torture committed since July 2024 should be immediately arrested, tried, and compensation and rehabilitation should be provided for the damage and destroyed property. The speakers also said that in the second session of the parliament after the elections, a sustainable ‘Minority Protection Act’ will be formulated by combining the hate crime and speech laws prevalent in the United States, the establishment of a Minority Commission and a Minority Ministry like India and a Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian Foundation on the model of the Islamic Foundation, the recognition of ‘minorities’ and ‘tribes’, and the ‘separate electorate’ system for the protection of minorities, for which the United States Unity Council is ready to provide a draft minority protection bill to the government. The speakers clearly informed Dr. Yunus that he should hold a truly inclusive, free and fair national parliamentary election, giving all political parties in the country the opportunity to participate, like the previous caretaker governments. Because it is absurd and ridiculous to select only one particular party on charges of discriminatory behavior and violence, and other parties who are guilty of numerous heinous crimes against humanity such as the 1971 genocide, the tribal genocide, the grenade attack on the opposition party on August 21, 2004 or the occupation of the police station, looting, setting fire to the metro rail, minority torture and burning police alive. That will not be acceptable to the world at all.
At the beginning of the meeting, the song ‘Dekho Alo Alo Akash’ was performed along with lighting of lamps in memory of those who died in minority torture. After that, Narayanganj Assistant Public Prosecutor Pradeep Bhowmik, who had gone on a visit to New York from Bangladesh, presented a detailed statement on the situation of minority torture. During this time, a booklet was distributed at the meeting venue, which, in addition to the number of victims and victims, detailed the destruction of 100 houses in the entire Buddhist neighborhood in Abhaynagar, Jessore, Gangachhara, Rangpur, Hazarigali, Chittagong Hill Tracts, 17 houses in the Christian neighborhood on Christmas Eve, and the killing of three Marma tribals protesting the rape of a minor girl in Guimara, Khagrachari. General Secretary Bishnu Gop gave a detailed account of various initiatives taken to help and protect the endangered minorities of Bangladesh in the past year, and the treasurer of the organization, Chandan Sengupta, submitted the accounts of the past year.
Among the speakers were Shitangshu Guha, Dr. Jiten Roy, Dr. Sabyasachi Ghosh Dastidar, Roopkumar Bhowmik, Biswajit Chakraborty, Pradeep Malakar, Tapan Sen, Reena Saha, Partha Talukdar, Subhash Saha, Nirmal Pal, Ramesh Nath, Ranbir Barua, Dr. Thomas Dulu Roy, Bhajan Sarkar, Ramdas Gharami, Sushil Sinha, Nitai Nath, Biswajit Saha, Rajiv Dey, F.Shaon Debnath, Edward Holsana, Piyas Kanchan Das, Anjan Chakraborty and others. 26 new young members shared their experiences and hopes and expectations in the meeting.
