The displaced Myanmar people have been living in Saudi Arabia with Bangladeshi passports since the 1970sBangladesh has agreed to renew the passports of 69,000 Rohingya from Myanmar who have been living in Saudi Arabia since the 1970s. “Some Rohingya went to Saudi Arabia after Bangladesh’s independence. We don’t know how many, but they [Saudi Arabia] have told us that the number is 69,000,” Asaduzzaman said. Nearly 2.28 million Bangladesh nationals work in Saudi Arabia - the largest Bangladeshi diaspora abroad. The home minister said Saudi Arabia proposed a prisoner swap deal and Bangladesh did not object to it.
