Describing the statements by the UN and the US over the student protests for safer roads as unfortunate and uncalled for, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu says that the government rejects those.
“We will write to the UN headquarters and the US government to retract its statements, which said barbaric attacks were carried out on students...the truth is no such incident took place,” he told the media at his offices on Tuesday.
He claimed that the law-enforcers were providing security for the students, who were checked documents of drivers and vehicles.
“A vested quarter is trying to reap political benefit out of the students and as part of that plot the Awami League office was attacked, when the police intervened, but the children was not attacked.”
Blaming the US Embassy of misrepresenting the situation in Dhaka, Inu said it as “an attempt to interfere in the country’s internal matter.”
Describing the statement by UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo as ‘unprecedented’, the information minister urged to retract it.
Inu also said that the attackers on journalists during the student protests will be identified and brought to book and that his office will write to the home ministry to initiate necessary measures.