When Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali was speaking at a discussion on Tuesday, he noted that “Myanmar’s proposal of partial repatriation might be a ‘trick’ to neutralise the mounting pressure from the international community.”The minister was speaking at a roundtable discussion at Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies on Tuesday morning. Also Read- Bangladesh foreign minister: Myanmar must play key role in resolving Rohingya crisis“The Rohingya crisis is no longer an internal issue in Myanmar. It is a regional crisis now.”Minister Mahmood Ali noted that the Myanmar army was strengthening their forces in Rakhine about a month before August 25. On the Myanmar’s home minister’s plan for “demographic balance,” Mahmood said the Myanmar army was working with Buddhist extremists to execute their plan. “They are trying to establish this issue as ‘Islamic terrorism’ or ‘extremist Bangali terrorism’.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 10, 2017 09:56 UTC