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Rohingyas end up resorting to terror activities owing to years of being deprived human rights: Bangladesh Dy High Commissioner

Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata Toufique Hasan on Sunday said that Rohingyas ended up becoming terrorists owing to years of being deprived fundamental rights. This was not only bad news for Bangladesh, but also its immediate neighbours, he added.

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Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata Toufique Hasan on Sunday said that Rohingyas ended up becoming terrorists owing to years of being deprived fundamental rights. This was not only bad news for Bangladesh, but also its immediate neighbours, he added.

 “If one has been deprived of human and fundamental rights for a long time one is bound to revolt and get into terror activities. Rohingyas who are indulging in terrorist activities are not confined to Bangladesh only. They are spreading into all the neighbouring countries and what appears to be the problem of Bangladesh today will be your problem tomorrow and on the day after tomorrow it will be everyone’s problem,” Hasan said and added that the only viable solution to it was Myanmar taking back the displaced Rohingyas and giving them citizenship.

The Central government, through an affidavit at the Supreme Court had recently said that all Rohingya Muslims were illegal immigrants and had links with banned terror outfits.

Hasan also said that just because the dialect of Rohingyas is similar to citizens of Chittagong in Bangladesh, they could not be called Bengalis. “I can speak as much Bengali as anyone in West Bengal. Does that make me an Indian?” he said.

Hasan added that after the recent violence on Rohingyas in Myanmar, about six lakh Rohingyas had come over to Bangladesh, joining the four lakh who were already there who had come over in 1978, 1991,1993, 2012 and 2016. “So there are over 10 lakh Rohingyas in Bangladesh at the moment whom, we, on human grounds, have given shelter to,” he said.

Bangladeshi author and filmmaker Shahriyar Kabir who was also present at the occasion also condemned calling Rohingyas as terrorists. “There is a possibility that some of them might have terror links. That does not mean that all the Rohingyas who have crossed over from Bangladesh to India looking for a shelter can be tagged as terrorists. We invite the Indian government for identification of those stray elements who have joined terror organisations,” he said. He said at one point of time India had given shelter to one crore refugees from Bangladesh but now are refusing to give shelter toRohingyas. “We might move the International Court against Myanmar for carrying out genocide. If justice is not served, offenders will get a shot in their arm,” he said.

Kabir said that India’s decision to send 40,000 Rohingyas can have an ugly result. “In Bangladesh there are members of terror groups who are saying that India is not giving shelter to 40,00 Muslims so we will drive Hindus away from Bangladesh as well. Besides, 90 per cent of Rohingyas who have come over are Muslims. Other than them there are also Rohingya Hindus and Christians,” he said.

 

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