The Bangladeshi Prime Minister made the statement during a meeting with the newly appointed Indonesian envoy Rina Prihtyasmiarsi Soemarno in Dhaka.
As thousands of Rohingya refugees swarm into Bangladesh’s southern bordering areas, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing their nationals into her country.
“Hosting a huge number of Myanmar nationals is a big burden for Bangladesh. We’ve given shelter to them only on humanitarian grounds,” she said.
The Bangladeshi Prime Minister made the statement during a meeting with the newly appointed Indonesian envoy Rina Prihtyasmiarsi Soemarno in Dhaka. The United Nations believes the violence in Myanmar has led to an estimated 300,000 people of the Rohingya community fleeing the country with the majority of them coming to Bangladesh. UN officials already believe that an estimated 146,000 of them have already reached Bangladesh’s border region of Cox’s Bazar.
The current influx of Rohingyas into Bangladesh first began on August 26, a day after the Rakhine Advisory Commission, led by the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, urged Myanmar authorities — in its advisory report —to give citizenship to the Rohingya community and put an end to their persecution.
Meanwhile, Cox’s Bazar, humanitarian aid agencies and social workers have been bringing in truckloads of food and relief supplies for the people stranded across the streets. Many of the people are jumping on to the trucks, in desperate efforts to get some food.
Vivian Tan, spokesperson for the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said, “These are clearly vulnerable people here. We have also seen quite a large number of pregnant women or lactating mothers who have just given birth so you see babies who are literally a few days old. For these people in their vulnerable state to decide to walk for days, to leave their homes, there must have been a strong reason for it. They must have had no choice but to flee their homes,” she told Wion.
Rohingya refugees also say that if Bangladesh refuses to take them they have nowhere else to go.
“They took 200 people of our village to the hills and hacked or shot them to death. We have land but we don’t know if the Rakhines will return it,” says Monowara, a Rohingya migrant at a makeshift camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh.
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The UN believes the violence in Myanmar has led to an estimated 3,00,000 people fleeing the country
UN officials believe that an estimated 1,46,000 of them have already reached Bangladesh’s border region
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