“But the one I actually spend a lot of time on is thinking about Bangladesh and the Rohingya refugees who were there, and the effects of instability in Burma and what it means for the region,” Lu said. The international community and the US, Lu said, were working together to find a solution to house these refugees until it’s safe enough for them to go back. Recently, India and Bangladesh’s foreign ministers stressed on the need to repatriate Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar. Bangladesh’s foreign minister Muhammad Hasan Mahmud “reiterated [his call for] India’s support in the early repatriation of Rohingya refugees.”Dhaka has said that it will not allow any more Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to enter the country as the large number of refugees were posing a security threat. Rohingyas have been facing persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar for decades and nearly a million of them are camped in the border district of Cox’s Bazar.

Source: bd News24 February 19, 2024 11:53 UTC