Odhikar under spotlight for propagating massacre at Shapla Chattar in 2013<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n– \u201cWe are the BBC. We only report what we can verify. Whoever says we hid the truth \u2013 I don\u2019t care. We know what happened that night,\u201d Mustafa stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arafat slammed the Yunus regime for rewarding the very fabricators of the myth: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Odhikar secretary Adilur Rahman Khan, convicted in 2023 for publishing a fake list of 61 \u201cmartyrs\u201d, is now Yunus\u2019 Adviser for Housing and Public Works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Odhikar\u2019s president C.R. Abrar has also been made an adviser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHad Yunus formed any commission on Shapla Chattar, it would only have been to legalise the same lie that Adilur was jailed for,\u201d Arafat wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2013 police action came after Hefazat-e-Islam paralysed Dhaka, torched vehicles, attacked police with petrol bombs and sharp weapons, and demanded blasphemy laws. Official records show 11\u201313 deaths during the entire day\u2019s violence\u2014most from Hefazat\u2019s own clashes\u2014and zero confirmed deaths from the midnight dispersal using only tear gas, rubber bullets and sound grenades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet for twelve years, BNP\u2013Jamaat, Hefazat and a section of foreign-funded NGOs have peddled claims of \u201cthousands killed and bodies removed by trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Security expert Aminul Hoque Polash joined the attack yesterday, openly challenging Adilur: \u201cShow the original 61-name list. Bring even one family on camera. You have the entire state machinery now\u2014do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Qawmi madrasa student Mufti Imran bin Bashir also confirmed that Islami Chhatra Shibir trained Hefazat activists to attack police, and that panic over sound grenades was deliberately spun into \u201cgenocide\u201d rumours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the Yunus government already disbursing compensation to alleged \u201cShapla victims\u201d and allowing fresh murder cases against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others, critics warn the regime is systematically rewriting history to appease Islamist radicals and erase the secular legacy of 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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