Posted on 02/07/2024 3:07:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
Since the Rohingya are considered foreign intruders by Myanmar's military government and have been denied citizenship, Bangladesh has little chance of reuniting with them across the border in Rakhine, the world's largest refugee population
Bangladesh declared on Wednesday that it will no longer accept the large number of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into its borders, citing security concerns.
Nearly a million Muslim Rohingya people reside in cramped camps made of bamboo and plastic in Bangladesh’s border province of Cox’s Bazar; the majority of them escaped a military crackdown in 2017. The Rohingya people have been persecuted for decades in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar.
Since the Rohingya are considered foreign intruders by Myanmar’s military government and have been denied citizenship, Bangladesh has little chance of reuniting with them across the border in Rakhine, the world’s largest refugee population.
Dozens of Myanmar soldiers flee to Bangladesh amid fight with rebels
Since the Rohingya are considered foreign intruders by Myanmar’s military government and have been denied citizenship, Bangladesh has little chance of reuniting with them across the border in Rakhine, the world’s largest refugee population.
“We will not allow any more Rohingya to enter the country… they have already become a burden for us,” Obaidul Quader, the minister for road transport and bridges, told reporters on Wednesday.
“International aid has been significantly reduced. How long can we support them?”
As fighting between Myanmar’s rebel forces and its junta regime intensifies, several hundred more people—mostly from the Chakma ethnic group and some Rohingya—have gathered on the Myanmar border to enter Bangladesh, according to Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Bangladesh’s refugee relief and repatriation commissioner based in Cox’s Bazar.
Rahman claimed that the Rohingya were “overburdened” in Bangladesh.
“It has been seven years and we have not been able to repatriate them,” he said.
“Keeping Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh has become a threat to our security, our law and order. It is creating a vulnerable situation for cross-border crime.”
According to Shariful Islam, a spokesman for Bangladesh’s Border Guard, at least 327 border troops and police from Myanmar—some of whom had been shot—had fled to Bangladesh during the last several days due to the rising level of violence.
According to Minister Quader, Dhaka is in negotiations with China and India to make sure that Bangladesh is unaffected by the domestic strife in neighboring Myanmar.
In protest of the rising border violence that has killed two people, including a Rohingya, on the Bangladeshi side, the nation summoned Myanmar’s ambassador on Tuesday.
“The aid agencies that were providing financial support previously are also pulling back and it is creating a lot of economic stress for Bangladesh,” Rahman said.
Rahman urged humanitarian groups such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to offer sustenance and medical aid to individuals ensnared in the violence in Myanmar as a result of the continuous fighting.
“Over the years, Bangladesh has generously provided sanctuary to those fleeing violence,” UNHCR said in a statement.
“UNHCR is in constant contact with the Bangladesh authorities and continues to advocate for civilians fleeing violence to have access to safety.”
People gotta go somewhere. Any ideas?
China has new cities that are inhabited due to unmet demand speculation.
Because it’s really Jesus the Jew they hate.
They’re Muslims, let Muslims decide where they go.
If Bangladesh is your ideal country things must be pretty desperate for you.
The Rohingya are people in Burma descended from people who came from Bangladesh. The Bhuddist Burmese overtly and covertly backed by the military dictatorship have been inciting fears against the Muslim Rohingya (fears the Rohingya will turn “ISIS like), but that is not what has happened. Most the violence has been Bhuddist attacks, much more so than the other way around.
The Rohingya have been in Burma since at least some time in the 12th century. In spite of that the Buddhist dominant government considers them foreigners.
When we made staes from the western territories, whoever was resding there was considered a citizen of the new state, regardless of where their family had come from.
Victimhood marketing.
I read into this situation and this all started after the royhinga attacked Myanmars officers and outposts on two separate occasions? Muslims being violent?...imagine that. Where are their fellow worshipers of allahusnackbar? To aid them ? OH thats right they are practicing their form of warfare in every western society via settlement then takeover as they have done since satan spawned this evil belief system.
All true, but somehow the same people who descry how the Israelis treat the Palestinians, are content to let the Burmese government oppress the Rohingya.
There are no peaceful muslims.
Period.
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It is probably not the Rohingya as much as it is all their horses. Bangladesh does not have enough hay.
But Islamic-lobby CAIR is suddenly silent...when they can’t bash Dhimmi-Israel..
If Mayanmar, a country that wants to erase your existence, is your other choice, things are pretty desperate...
GEEEEEEEEEE- A 3rd world country that gets it——
Can we borrow one of their ‘leaders’ to replace Biden????
They don’t care about the Uyghurs either. Probably because communist China donates funds to HAMAS.
The only time Mooslimbs are coddled and protected is when they are in Western countries. /spit
The Rohingya’s are actually of Bangladeshi origin. Now refused entry by their ancestral country.
Rohingya are not fighting against Israel so they are of no interest to the forces of darkness. Pali’s, well, they are another matter.
“All true, but somehow the same people who descry how the Israelis treat the Palestinians, are content to let the Burmese government oppress the Rohingya.”
All true, and the same for all the Arab states who went to war against Israel in and since 1948 but have been hard pressed to make citizens of “Palestinians” who went to those countries.
Its “religious” when they make war, but “national” and political when it comes to folks of their religion from somewhere else. Its a common theme in the Middle East.
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