INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A group of MPs has withdrawn a controversial report into Bangladesh after complaints that it was biased in favour of the ousted government
of Sheikh Hasina.The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on the Commonwealth issued a report on Bangladesh last November that criticised
the current regime in Dhaka but was accused of significant inaccuracies.Officials say, however, that it is no longer being distributed and
League was interfering in British politics.The report, entitled The Ongoing Situation in Bangladesh, was released to the press in November,
three months after Hasina was deposed by a student-led rebellion against her authoritarian rule
That rebellion was met by a brutal but ultimately unsuccessful crackdown from security forces, resulting in an estimated 1,000 deaths.The
are being slapped on former ministers, Awami League leaders, MPs, former judges, scholars, lawyers and journalists in such numbers to raise
thinktank.Experts, however, criticised it for citing a relatively low estimate of deaths, and claiming that most had occurred after Hasina
occurred] after 5 August when millions came into the street protesting against police tactics against demonstrators and looking for
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also claimed the new government in Dhaka had charged 194,000 people with crimes, whereas experts say that number is more likely to refer to
the number of people named in police reports about possible crimes.Rupa Huq, a Labour MP who has recently spent time in Bangladesh,
the most superficial knowledge of Bangladesh would prevent ..
It is either egregiously biased or just extremely bad analysis
