Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the international community to think about a solution of the Rohingya crisis so the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals could return to their homeland and live a decent life
“The whole world should about finding a solution to the crisis enabling the return of the Myanmar nationals to their homeland to have a decent life,” she said.
The prime minister said this while a British cross party parliamentary delegation led by Virendra Sharma called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban. Other members of the delegation are: Paul Scully, Neil Coyle and Andrew Western.
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Hasina also mentioned that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas are becoming heavy burden for a small country like Bangladesh.
The PM the government had no other option but to provide shelter to the helpless Rohingyas when they arrived in Bangladesh six years ago.
“We have given them shelter on humanitarian ground,” she said.
In this connection, she mentioned that at that time there were some 40,000 pregnant women among the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.
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She said that at the beginning the government and the people of the country provided them food and shelter.
“After that six years have passed. But Myanmar has made no tangible and practical steps to take back their nationals although they have agreed to do so,” she said.
She mentioned that as a result these Myanmar nationals are leading a inhumane lives here in various camps.
“Various types of crimes are committing there, bloodsheds are going on among various groups as they are engaged in various types of conflicts,” she said.
She also mentioned that human trafficking, smuggling of arms and drugs are going on in the camps.
“Rohingyas are involving them in various types of criminal activities,” she added.
PM Hasina mentioned that Bangladesh government has arranged better accommodation facilities for Rohingyas on Bhashanchar island.
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“Some Rohingyas went there and they are very well there. We have arranged food, medicare facilities, education and employment there,” she said.
But, she said, due to sub-groups among the Rohingyas while one group wants to go there, another creates obstacles.
The prime minister said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war the inflow of foreign assistance for the Rohingyas is decreasing day by day.
Bangladesh is hosting over one million Rohingyas after they fled their homes in Myanmar to escape a brutal crackdown in 2017.