'Simply untrue': US government as it refutes interference allegations in Bangladesh
Bangladesh crisis, including the protests in the country that led to the deaths of hundreds of people.
Refuting all the reports and rumours, the White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean Pierre, said in a media briefing on Monday (local time), «So, we have had no involvement at all. Any, reports or rumours that the United States government was involved in these, in these events is simply, simply false. That is not true.»
Jean Pierre further stated that Bangladeshi people should determine the future of the Bangladeshi government.
«This is a choice for and by the Bangladeshi people. We believe that the Bangladeshi people should determine the future of the Bangladeshi government, and that's where we stand. Any allegations, certainly we will continue to say, and what I have said here is simply untrue,» Jean Pierre said.
Recently, in an interview with ANI, Michael Kugelman, a US-based Foreign Policy expert, and Director of the South Asia Institute at The Wilson Center, refuted allegations of foreign interference behind the mass uprising that led to Sheikh Hasina's ouster, stating he had not seen any «plausible evidence» to support these claims.
He noted that the Hasina government's harsh crackdown on protesters escalated the movement. «My view has been very simple. I see this as a crisis that was driven by purely internal factors, by students who were unhappy about a particular issue, job quotas that they didn't like and they were worried about the government. Sheikh Hasina's government cracked down very hard on the
