She said the Rohingya refugees required urgent aid. More than 400,000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh since the unfolding of the latest chapter in the Rohingya crisis on August 25. Bangladesh already houses hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who crossed the border at different times in the past following persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. I have asked, ‘why only Muslims will be the refugees around the world?’ They agreed with me,” she added. About the Bangladeshi refugees in India, she said: “Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took back all refugees from India in 1972 after Bangladesh’s independence.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 20, 2017 04:30 UTC