Bangladesh Govt Rejects Al Jazeera Report Being Politically Motivated

The Government of Bangladesh has rejected and condemned the false and deliberate report by Al Jazeera, maligning Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government.

Attention of the Bangladesh government has been drawn to the report titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men” by Al Jazeera news channel. 

“The report is nothing more than a misleading series of innuendos and insinuations in what is apparently a politically motivated “smear campaign” by notorious individuals associated with the Jamaat-i-Islami extremist group, which has been opposing the progressive and secular principles of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh since its very birth as an independent nation in 1971,” said a statement sent by Md Tohidul Islam, Deputy Principal Information Officer of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka.

The fact that the report’s historical account fails to even mention the horrific genocide in 1971 in which Jamaat perpetrators killed millions of Bengali civilians and raped more than two hundred thousand Bengali women, is but one reflection of the political bias in Al Jazeera’s coverage and that of its principal commentator, Mr. David Bergman, convicted by International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh for challenging the official death toll of 1971 Liberation War.

It is noted that the main “source” of Al Jazeera’s allegations is an alleged international criminal claimed to be a “psychopath” by Al-Jazeera itself.

There is no evidence linking the Prime Minister and other State institutions of Bangladesh to this particular individual, and it is highly irresponsible for the international news channel to draw conclusions on the basis of the words of a mentally unstable person.

Nor is it surprising that the report is consistent with the anti-Bangladesh propaganda routinely orchestrated by a few convicted absconding criminals and disqualified individuals sponsored by Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh, who have conspired with international extremist groups and news media, especially Al Jazeera, on certain occasions.

The Bangladesh Government rejects this desperate “smear campaign” instigated by extremists and their allies, working from London and elsewhere, and regrets that Al Jazeera has allowed itself to become an instrument for their malicious political designs aimed at destabilising the secular democratic Government of Bangladesh with a proven track record of extraordinary socio-economic development and progress.