The UN report listing “victims of enforced disappearances” in Bangladesh is replete with inaccuracies, with the leading academics and right activists raising questions over the shoddy job. The fact that two separatist insurgents, both back in India, figured in the UN list says a lot about the report.

Dismayed over such “sloppy” work, experts in Bangladesh have raised questions over the global body’s over-reliance on some local non-government organisations (NGOs), who are close to or even run by the Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) workers. The BNP, for its part, has a blatant record of faking cases of human rights as validated through media reports and accounts from the country’s known rights activists.

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Bangladesh's best known rights activist and lawyer Sultana Kamal said in an interview that the “BNP has a history of faking cases of human rights”, and called for “legal action against the party for that where appropriate meaning that such claims needed to be investigated properly as fake cases only serve to undermine credibility of these issues."

She made those comments when her attention was drawn to an earlier report carried by Bangladeshi Media titled Sorry Khaleda exposing the party’s strategy of faking rights issues.

“The fake human rights abuse cases by the BNP has already damaged their image significantly”, said Sultana Kamal in an interview with India Today.

Bangladesh activist Sultana Kamal has called for legal actions against the BNP over 'fake cases of human rights'.

Meanwhile, the sensational case of the re-appearance of an aged woman, Rahima Begum, has also raised doubts about the UN report. Rahima Begum went into hiding on August 27 and was later found by police on September 24. This case brings into question the authenticity of claims about enforced disappearances made by some Bangladesh rights gro