Bangladesh believes international agencies appear to have run a systematic campaign against the country to tarnish its image abroad.
The observation came in the wake of a recent UN query on 'forced disappearance' in Bangladesh, issuing a Covid red alert by the EU for Bangladesh and a derogatory comment in a French film.
About forced disappearance, foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen resented the UN did not dare to question rich countries like the USA and the UK on such issue.
"They question us because we give them importance. We don't want a single case of extrajudicial killing in our country, but the rate of such killings is much lesser than the USA."
"But the United Nations doesn't dare to question them," Dr Momen went on to say.
A UN human rights body recently sought information from Bangladesh on the whereabouts of 34 people believed to be the victims of forced disappearance.
"In the USA, around one thousand people were killed extra-judicially, but the UN keeps mum about them," Dr Momen said, blasting the UN move.
"Similarly, the rate of rape is much higher in rich countries like the USA and the UK than in Bangladesh."
"I am not justifying the crime, rather we are trying to prevent it wholeheartedly, but there should not be any discrimination by international agencies on such issue," Dr Momen gives vent to his grudge.
He feels that Bangladesh's image is being tarnished in a 'systematic way'.
"If you analyse the statistics of these crimes among these countries and us, you will find that we are angels," he asserts.
In this regard, the minister mentioned that although the fatality of Covid is much more in India than in Bangladesh, the EU lifted red alert for Indians.
