DHAKA, Aug 12, 2023 (BSS) - Australia units of Awami League (AL) and Australia have protested two Australian Green Party Senators, David Shoebridge and Janet Rice, for their ongoing campaign against Bangladesh Government since 2020.

Dr Abul Hasnat Milton, president of the Australia Awami League and Noman Shamim, General Secretary of the Australia Jubo League, in their research-based, 27-page joint statement, labeled the Senators' statements politically motivated, false, offensive and oxymoron to customary international diplomatic decency, according to a press release received here today.

"As far as we know, neither of these two senators have ever visited Bangladesh," they said in their joint statement, adding that they have no kinship with various segments of the Bangladeshi diaspora in Australia and they appear to be poorly informed of Bangladesh's political history.

In their protest paper, Dr Milton and Noman Shamim highlighted the long political history of Bangladesh, the genocide that happened during the liberation war of 1971, the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family on August 15, 1975, the killing of four national leaders on November 3 and the subsequent promulgation of indemnity ordinance to protect the murderers - all of these gave rise to a culture of impunity in Bangladesh, destroying the fundamental harmony of social structure.

They also mentioned at least nineteen attempts to assassinate the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. When all these occurred, "why Australia chose to remain silent? they posed the question.
 
In the protest letter, it is also stated that the information used to make numerous complaints against Bangladesh Government is deceptive.

NGOs with ties to the BNP have provided false information. The majority of the 600 reported-missing individuals are alive and well.
 
The protest letter provides irrefutable evidence that Amnesty International has been complicit in heinous human rights violations around the globe by providing deceptive information in the name of defending human rights.

In addition, Henry Kissinger, the then-foreign minister of the United States, was demanded to be prosecuted for his involvement in the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, calling for an apology from the United States for allegedly engaging in conspiracies against Bangladesh at various times.

Dr Abul Hasnat Milton and Noman Shamim urged the senators to learn more about Bangladesh and visit the country as well as to maintain contact with the diverse Bangladeshi community in Australia.

Finally, the senators were questioned if the Australian people elected them to spread conspiracy propaganda against a foreign country.

Copies of this protest letter have been sent to the President of the Australian Senate, the Australian Foreign Minister, and other important Senators and Members of Parliament.