National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman attends a seminar at Dhaka University on Wednesday. Photo: Banglar Chokh
The NHRC Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman on Wednesday said the attack and vandalism on the households of the Buddhists community at Ramu and Cox’s Bazar has spoiled the spirit of secularism in the constitution.
“The picture of the ruined statue of Gautam Buddha published in newspapers represents a bleeding Bangladesh”, he added.
The National Human Rights Commission chairman made the remark at a seminar on ‘Universal Periodic Review: Rights of the People’s of the Chittagong Hill Tracts’ at Dhaka University Senate Bhaban.
Criticising intelligence agencies role, he also questioned if the incident was preplanned, then why they failed to prevent it.
Stating secularism and the state religion cannot go together, the human rights boss pointed at this paradoxical provision in the fifteenth amendment of the constitution.
This confusion is responsible for such violent incidents, he added.
The NHRC will recommend the government to take necessary steps after visiting the spots at Ramu, he said.
Talking about the languishment of implementing the CHT peace accord, Prof Mizan expressed frustrations and said some people were now suggesting an amendment to the accord which would be suicidal for the country.
Prof Meshbah Kamal, a DU teacher of History department presented a keynote paper on the topic at the programme.
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