Bangladesh:'Rohingya refugee crisis is worsening', says Hasina at UNGA

Warning that a wider regional problem is at hand, Banglesh’s leer said Friday that crisis involving Muslim Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar is “going beyond camps” where y are staying. In Banglesh’s annual dress to U.N. General Assembly, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appealed to international community to “understand untenability of situation” surrounding refugees from Myanmar, who are fleeing persecution by military re.

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Sheikh Hasina's Statement 

“I would request international community to understand untenability of situation,” Hasina said. “ crisis is w going beyond camps. Despite all our efforts to contain it, crisis is w becoming a regional threat.” She said that health and security are becoming problems like congestion and environmental problems increase. She says Banglesh will continue to work with Myanmar to encour repatriation of Rohingya. She has proposed at UN this week a resolution ensuring that Myanmar and international community must ensure safety of any Rohingya returnees. We are bearing burden of a crisis which is Myanmar’s own making,” Hasina said. “It is an issue solely between Myanmar and its own people, Rohingyas. y mselves have to resolve it. Voluntary return of Rohingyas to ir homes in Rakhine state in safety, security and dignity is only solution to crisis.”

Banglesh said this week that authorities will build barbed-wire fences around more than 30 Rohingya refugee camps near border to stop ir expansion. Home Minister Asuzzaman Khan said Thursday fences were ordered by Hasina, who h earlier told authorities to open border to allow hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya to escape from a harsh military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar two years ago.

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Background

Myanmar’s military began a harsh counterinsurgency campaign against Rohingya Muslims in August 2017 in response to an insurgent attack. More than 700,000 Rohingya fled what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign involving mass rapes, killings and burning of thousands of ir homes. Last year, U.N.-established Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar recommended prosecution of top Myanmar military commanders on charges of gecide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Myanmar has rejected allegations.

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