‘Journalist’ David Bergman faces accusation of peddling pretend information and disinformation

David Bergman, a British nationwide and self-proclaimed investigative journalist has been a controversial and doubtful determine for years for his work dealing with accusations of bias, distortion and in addition fabrication.

Commenting on Bergman, BdPolitico in a report titled ‘David Bergman — Lobbyist, Mercenary, No Journalist’ wrote:

With the BNP-Jamaat coalition out of energy, Bergman turned to deposed radicals for a brand new profession: political consultancy. An euphemism for political activism underneath the garb.

He, based on sources, signed up for a three-point contract — (a) defame, debunk and demean the Awami League by means truthful or foul (b) venture BNP and Jaamat e Islami as the one credible different in Bangladesh. (c) oppose and undermine the credibility of the Worldwide Warfare Crimes Trials by way of fixed authorized sniping, so-called media exposes and fixed lobbying in Western international locations.

In accordance with India Pacific, [David] Bergman’s alleged propagandist tendencies have been most evident in his reporting on delicate points similar to poverty, corruption, human rights abuses, and the caste system. His movies, similar to “India’s Darkish Aspect” and “Kids of the Pyre,” have painted a bleak image of India, portraying it as a nation tormented by social injustice, rampant inequality, and deep-seated societal ills.

Bergman has strongly denied the allegations of propaganda, stating that his purpose is to make clear vital social points in India. He believes that his work can contribute to constructive change within the nation. He has additionally defended his methodology, stating that he makes use of rigorous journalistic requirements and that his work relies on proof.

In accordance with media sources, David Bergman first traveled from Birmingham, England, to Bhopal in March 1986 by bicycle as a charity to lift ₤5,000 for the victims of the catastrophe. Whereas there, he grew to become entangled in a authorized dispute over the federal government’s position in aid that The Guardian later dubbed “The Bergman Affair” (October 31, 1986).

In September 1986, when Bergman was 21 years outdated, he was held in custody in violation of India’s Foreigners Act and Nationwide Safety Act and was accused of working for Union Carbide.

It might be talked about right here that, on December 3, 1984, following methyl isocyanate (MIC) gasoline launched from the plant of Union Carbide in Bhopal [which also is known as Bhopal Disaster], over 500,000 individuals had been affected.

The federal government of Madhya Pradesh confirmed a complete of three,787 deaths associated to the gasoline launch. It left an estimated 40,000 people completely disabled, maimed, or affected by critical sickness, making it one of many world’s worst industrial disasters.

Right here once more, it’s proved that David Bergman lacks minimal ethics and since his youthful days, he has at all times been related to the criminals and culprits. On this explicit case, he had labored for Union Carbide, an organization that was answerable for the dying of three,787 individuals and for leaving 40,000 people completely disabled, maimed, or affected by critical sickness. Doesn’t it present the ugly and inhuman man in David Bergman?

David Bergman has been writing for terror-network Al Jazeera for a few years and has been on the month-to-month payroll of the fear patron Qatari regime. Born in 1965, he’s the son of Alan Bergman, a dentist from Hadley Wooden I north London. Bergman holds levels in each politics and regulation and his regulation diploma is from the College of Birmingham.

As a journalist, the one profession David Bergman has outdoors Bangladesh is with Twenty-Twenty, which is a British tv manufacturing firm. In September 2007, following Twenty-Twenty’s merger with Shed Media Group (now Warner Bros Tv Productions UK), David Bergman was sacked from Twenty-Twenty on varied allegations, which included protection towards bribes, womanizing and habit to medicine.

On February 15, 2013, David Bergman wrote an article in an internet site named Bangladesh Chronicle, in response to an article written by Tahmina Anam, daughter of Mahfuz Anam [editor of The Daily Star in Bangladesh]. David Bergman first tried to get his response to Tahmina’s article in The Guardian or any of the British newspapers.

As none accepted it, he had revealed in Bangladesh Chronicle saying: “The author, Tahmina Anam has written a bit on ‘Shahbag’ on the UK’s Guardian web site. That is my response: “Hello Tahmina, You do understand, I hope – and I say this simply on some extent of accuracy – that Abul Quader Mollah was not really convicted of ‘beheading a poet, raping an 11-year-old woman and taking pictures 344 individuals’ as you set it so starkly. He was convicted – should you occur to have learn the beautiful properly reasoned verdict – of being current on all these events with a spread of males who did; he was not himself the principal actor based on what the courtroom discovered. I believe it is very important make that time clear – as the way in which you write it’s slightly deceptive. He could also be a brute or worse – however you form of make him right into a monster, which isn’t what the courtroom discovered”.

Bergman’s response to Tahmina Anam’s article proves – he really has been committedly working in favor of the battle criminals. Persons are conscious of his makes an attempt to tarnish the picture of the Worldwide Crime Tribunal in Bangladesh.

David Bergman is the son-in-law of Dr Kamal Hossain, a lawyer-cum- politician. Bergman’s mother-in-law – Hameeda Akhund alias Hameeda Hossain is the daughter of a Pakistani jurist named Abdullah Shafi Mohammad Akhund. Hameeda was born in 1936 in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. Her father Abdullah Shafi was a diehard anti-Indian.

David Bergman’s job is to defame and demonize anybody who’s confronting spiritual extremism and jihad. Because of this, he additionally has been operating vile propaganda towards me on social media claiming my contents are a mixture of 5 p.c truth and 95 p.c “disinformation”. He even has labelled me as an agent of Bangladesh authorities. For a propagandist like Bergman with a collection of observe information of mischiefs and ethical turpitude, such vile propaganda is no surprise.