The ill-motived attempt of the BNP-Jamaat’s hired international lobbyist firms to persuade the United States of America for imposing new sanction against security forces and senior government officials has utterly failed due to the counter- effective diplomatic efforts of the government.
BNP-Jammat hired various lobbyist firms immediately after the war crimes trial had begun.
However, their anti-state moves to halt the war crimes trials ended in fiasco. The present pro-liberation government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina successfully executed the top brass war criminals as per court’s order despite heavy international pressure to save war criminals.
As the next general election is approaching near, BNP-Jammat policymakers again started their deep-rooted conspiracy to push US administration for new sanction against senior government officials, especially against security forces to destroy their moral strength. Targeting the International Human Rights Day, their hired international lobbyist firms had intensified their efforts to convince US administration for imposing new sanction against Bangladeshi senior government officials.
But ultimately BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists got deeply frustrated as their multi-million-dollar ill-efforts of getting new US sanction had miserably failed.
BNP and radical Jamaat-e-Islami were spending millions of dollars for lobbyists to get new US sanction this year. The anti-liberation forces also hatched such anti-Bangladesh conspiracy in the United Kingdom in various ways. BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s paid and so-called journalist Mushfiqul Fazal Ansari sitting in Washington DC continued his frantic bids to push US policymakers as well as the United Nations for imposing new sanctions.
William B Milam, former US ambassador in Bangladesh mysteriously joined them in their ill-motive.
Mushfiqul Fazal Ansari openly declared that on the Human Rights Day new sanctions will be imposed. Similarly, another controversial journalist named Tasneem Khalil had also made similar declaration through a Facebook post.
Mushfiqul Fazal Ansari, known for his affiliations with anti-liberation forces, is pushing the United Nations as well as the US Department of State in bringing more government officials from Bangladesh under fresh sanctions.
Mushfiqul Fazal Ansari is on the monthly payroll of BNP and several family members of war criminals. According to a source, Mushfiqul Fazal Ansari spends thousands of dollars every week in socializing with key individuals in the US, while he is also seen having lunch and dinner with those individuals, where most of the times he is accompanied by William B Milam.
Without specifically mentioning the name of Mushfiqul Fazal Ansari, Foreign Minister Abdul Momen on December 9 also alleged that a journalist is behind the US voicing concerns over the recent political rallies in Bangladesh.
The journalist instigates them, the foreign minister further claimed.
According to him, the journalist has access to the White House and the UN. He questions promptly whenever there is an issue in Bangladesh and gets response.
The journalist even writes the answer. Possibly for that, the US is so prompt, Abdul Momen added.
At a press briefing on last Tuesday, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price expressed concern about reports of intimidation, political violence, police harassment, arrests of opposition party members and restrictions on the ability of the opposition parties to meet and hold peaceful rallies.
A similar statement was issued by US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas who stressed the right of all for peaceful demonstrations.
On Wednesday, 15 foreign missions issued a joint statement ahead of the International Human Rights Day on December 10 that also coincided with the BNP rally.