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.”
“How come people love the Palestinians and don’t care about the Rohingya?”
The Rohingya, as far as I know, has NOT promised to kill every last Jew...so what’s to support?
Pakistan ? Wait, are they right sort of Muslim ? I understand that there is some animosity between Sunni and Shia . If they had to choose which are they least likely to kill in religious fervor? What a mess.
How could anyone not want more Muslims? the gift that keeps on killing and raping!
I do not see any inconsistency. "people" don't want "Palestinians" in their country either.
In both places, Muslims who have become bad neighbors, because of ideology, are not welcome.
Of course, some people love to have other countries experience the trouble they do not want.
“Most the violence has been Bhuddist attacks, much more so than the other way around.”
Yeh, right. The peaceful muslims were sitting around eating pistacios and picking daisies when the buddhists, unexpectedly and for no reason at all, decided to attack the muslims. That’s typical propaganda trash from communist sites like axios and the UN.
Algeria, Morocco, Sudan,Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Indonesia,Kyrgyzstan, all majority Muslim.
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