Burmese are a bunch of aswholes. They had never ruled their Northwest territories, and yet they played tricks as Indians did to have formed a UNION with the minorities in the northwest region through a Banlong treaty. After f*cking 70 years none of these minorities has been given "citizenship". You BDers only care about Rohinyas not the others. Don't you guys have an idea that the NE minorities of Burma have fought against Burmese for decades? And none of these folk groups had taken large scale refuge to other places except for the Rohinyas? Why do you guys cried so loudly as if it were only a Muslim thing?
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The amount of Chinese butt-hurt at BD brings sheer joy to my heart!
Trying to equate the Rohingyas with other minorities, who were denied citizenship unlike the other ethnic minorities, and also the fact that tens of thousands of them were killed last Autumn is the height of desperation. Now blaming the Rohingyas for fleeing for their very lives! lol
Enjoy China being seen as no better than the US and staying contained in E Asia forever as no-one, apart from Pakistan and one or two other poor and insignificant countries, likes you guys.
Even Taiwan hates your guts and wants nothing to do with you guys and they rule themselves rather than the great CCP!
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Myanmar's civilian, military leaders meet, vow to ‘crush’ Rakhine rebels
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Published: 07 Jan 2019 21:01 BdST Updated: 07 Jan 2019 21:01 BdST
Fighting between government forces and the rebel Arakan Army in the western state of Rakhine has displaced thousands of people since early December, according to the United Nations.
The Arakan Army wants greater autonomy for Rakhine, where the mainly Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group makes up the majority of the population.
Rakhine State saw a military-led crackdown in 2017, following attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents that prompted hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee westwards into neighbouring Bangladesh.
Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay said Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other cabinet members met military leaders, including army chief Min Aung Hlaing, his deputy and the military intelligence chief, to discuss "foreign affairs and national security".
"The president's office has instructed the military to launch an operation to crush the terrorists," Zaw Htay told a news conference in the capital, Naypyitaw.
While Suu Kyi is barred from being president by a military-drafted constitution, Win Myint is a loyalist and she is seen as de facto leader of the civilian government, while the military remains in charge of security.
The insurgents killed 13 policemen and wounded nine in attacks on four police posts on Friday, as Myanmar celebrated Independence Day, state media reported.
An Arakan Army spokesman outside Myanmar told Reuters last week the group attacked the security forces in response to a broad military offensive in northern Rakhine State that also targeted civilians.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday that 4,500 people were sheltering in monasteries and communal spaces after being displaced by the fighting in the past month.
'CYCLE OF VIOLENCE'
Zaw Htay described the Arakan Army as a "terrorist organization" and said it had surprised security forces on guard against Rohingya insurgents.
He said the Arakan Army could destabilise Rakhine State for years to come and warned people not to give it support.
"Do they want to see a cycle of violence lasting decades?" he said. "I want to tell Rakhine people who are supporting (the Arakan Army): Don't think about yourself, but think about your next generation."
Myanmar governments have battled various ethnic minority insurgent groups since shortly after independence from Britain in 1948, though some have struck ceasefire agreements.
Zaw Htay also accused the Arakan Army of meeting the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a group of Rohingya insurgents that Myanmar also considers terrorists but added that Myanmar was unable to eliminate the groups as they had bases across the border in Bangladesh.
A Bangladeshi foreign ministry official and two Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) officers denied the accusation.
One BGB officer asked Myanmar to provide evidence of militant camps in Bangladesh.
“All the terrorism is taking place on the other side of the border," said Lieutenant Colonel Manzural Hasan Khan, a BGB commander in Cox's Bazar, the district where more than 900,000 Rohingya Muslims are sheltering having fled bouts of violence that have drawn international condemnation against Myanmar.
"The world knows what happened on the other side," he said.
The Myanmar government and military leaders also discussed a temporary ceasefire the military announced last month in other parts of the country, where other insurgent groups operate, Zaw Htay said.
The meeting was held at the request of the president's office, he said.
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Published: 07 Jan 2019 21:01 BdST Updated: 07 Jan 2019 21:01 BdST
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Myanmar military Commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (R) looks at Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during Myanmar's top six-party talks at the Presidential palace at Naypyitaw April 10, 2015.
Fighting between government forces and the rebel Arakan Army in the western state of Rakhine has displaced thousands of people since early December, according to the United Nations.
The Arakan Army wants greater autonomy for Rakhine, where the mainly Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group makes up the majority of the population.
Rakhine State saw a military-led crackdown in 2017, following attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents that prompted hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee westwards into neighbouring Bangladesh.
Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay said Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other cabinet members met military leaders, including army chief Min Aung Hlaing, his deputy and the military intelligence chief, to discuss "foreign affairs and national security".
"The president's office has instructed the military to launch an operation to crush the terrorists," Zaw Htay told a news conference in the capital, Naypyitaw.
While Suu Kyi is barred from being president by a military-drafted constitution, Win Myint is a loyalist and she is seen as de facto leader of the civilian government, while the military remains in charge of security.
The insurgents killed 13 policemen and wounded nine in attacks on four police posts on Friday, as Myanmar celebrated Independence Day, state media reported.
An Arakan Army spokesman outside Myanmar told Reuters last week the group attacked the security forces in response to a broad military offensive in northern Rakhine State that also targeted civilians.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday that 4,500 people were sheltering in monasteries and communal spaces after being displaced by the fighting in the past month.
'CYCLE OF VIOLENCE'
Zaw Htay described the Arakan Army as a "terrorist organization" and said it had surprised security forces on guard against Rohingya insurgents.
He said the Arakan Army could destabilise Rakhine State for years to come and warned people not to give it support.
"Do they want to see a cycle of violence lasting decades?" he said. "I want to tell Rakhine people who are supporting (the Arakan Army): Don't think about yourself, but think about your next generation."
Myanmar governments have battled various ethnic minority insurgent groups since shortly after independence from Britain in 1948, though some have struck ceasefire agreements.
Zaw Htay also accused the Arakan Army of meeting the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a group of Rohingya insurgents that Myanmar also considers terrorists but added that Myanmar was unable to eliminate the groups as they had bases across the border in Bangladesh.
A Bangladeshi foreign ministry official and two Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) officers denied the accusation.
One BGB officer asked Myanmar to provide evidence of militant camps in Bangladesh.
“All the terrorism is taking place on the other side of the border," said Lieutenant Colonel Manzural Hasan Khan, a BGB commander in Cox's Bazar, the district where more than 900,000 Rohingya Muslims are sheltering having fled bouts of violence that have drawn international condemnation against Myanmar.
"The world knows what happened on the other side," he said.
The Myanmar government and military leaders also discussed a temporary ceasefire the military announced last month in other parts of the country, where other insurgent groups operate, Zaw Htay said.
The meeting was held at the request of the president's office, he said.
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The Qur'an says that a Muslim is a brother of another Muslim and pagan buddhists are enemies of Muslims. Then why are rohingya Muslims willing to live in a pagan Buddhist land? Why don't they go to a brotherly Muslim state like Bangladesh, Pakistan or Turkey?The amount of Chinese butt-hurt at BD brings sheer joy to my heart!
Trying to equate the Rohingyas with other minorities, who were denied citizenship unlike the other ethnic minorities, and also the fact that tens of thousands of them were killed last Autumn is the height of desperation. Now blaming the Rohingyas for fleeing for their very lives! lol
Enjoy China being seen as no better than the US and staying contained in E Asia forever as no-one, apart from Pakistan and one or two other poor and insignificant countries, likes you guys.
Even Taiwan hates your guts and wants nothing to do with you guys and they rule themselves rather than the great CCP!
Arakhan belongs to Rohingyas.
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Try all you want but we won't let you cowards create a Kashmir or Palestine like situation in our country. You Muslims have a bad habit of encroaching into other's territory and demanding a separate state for yourself just like you did in India during 1947.
Arakan is a majority Buddhist state with more than 65% of the population being rakhine Buddhist. Arakan belongs to us and we don't need Muslim traitors in our land who wants to break our country. Muslims will never be loyal to a Buddhist state so there is no need to consider rohingyya muslims as citizens of Myanmar. Same can be said for other Buddhist nations like Thailand and Sri Lanka.
You aware that BD has 3.5x GDP of Myanmar and it's economy is expected to be the fastest growing large economy in the world to 2030?
BD is also in the middle of a massive military modernisation programme that will be complete by 2030.
Simple military power will make Barmans yield to BD.
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Listen we ain't concerned about Bangladesh. You are free to live as you wish just like us.
The thing we don't like about you Bangladeshis is your habit of pocking into other's internal affairs. What we do in Arakan is non of your business as it is our territory not yours.
Also it is not our fault if the rohingyas migrate into Bangladeshi territory in bulk. Our military forced them out of Myanmar but we didn't tell them to go to Bangladesh. You should blame the rohingyas for messing up your country.
Where else are they supposed to go? Swim to Australia?
We will deal with you savages as to the time of our choosing.
PS - Rohingyas have not messed up BD as they are all living in refugee camps. They will be hosted till they can go back to their lands in Arakan.
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You want us to accept a community who in the past created jihadi groups and fought our army, killed our people and destroyed our temples?
Where else are they supposed to go? Swim to Australia?
We will deal with you savages as to the time of our choosing.
PS - Rohingyas have not messed up BD as thy are all living in refugee camps. They will be hosted till they can go back to their lands in Arakan.
Also it is a lie that the rohingyas never had any rights in Myanmar. Till 1982 they were considered as citizens of Myanmar but due to their own fault they lost everything.
We had various rohingya politicians in the past but their trecherous nature made them losers. Sultan Mahmud was a rohingya mp and health minister. This man once demanded the Burmese government to hand over parts of Arakan to East Pakistan now Bangladesh. His speeches were condemned and he was eventually ruled out. Like him, there were many rohingya politicians who were like leeches, always hell bent on creating chaos in Myanmar.
Between 1950 to 1980 the rohingya militants were very strong and they conducted mass aritrocities against Buddhists in northern Arakan. They destroyed temples and homes and forced many rakhines to leave northern Arakan.
The rohingyas are terrorists and they are not welcome in our land. We support our army in eradicating terrorism in our land.
They are people born inside your territory.. So they are citizens of Burma...
What they study or believe is immaterial. You have the full authority inside your territory to decide what is being taught in schools and colleges. So implement your own educational system in your territory.
You cannot throw people out from their own land because you disagree with their religion.
More than half of the rohingyas currently in Bangladesh are composed of women and children.. how are women and children terrorists? Anyways, grow up.. dont be a racist...
Rohingya "lost generation" struggle to study in Bangladesh camps
>> Reuters
Published: 18 Mar 2019 12:49 PM BdST Updated: 18 Mar 2019 02:03 PM BdST
A government investigation had outed him, along with dozens of his classmates, as a Rohingya refugee, a member of the mostly stateless Muslim minority from neighbouring Myanmar.
"Our headmaster called us into his office and told us that there's an order that Rohingya students have no rights to study here anymore," said the teenager, a small boy with cropped hair and a faint moustache. "We went back home crying."
For years, Bangladeshi schools have quietly admitted some of the Rohingya who live as refugees in sprawling camps on the country's southern coast, and whose numbers have swelled to more than 1 million since violence across the border in 2017. But the new influx has tested the hospitality of the Bangladeshi government, leading them to apply tighter controls on the population.
The recent expulsions highlight the struggle of hundreds of thousands of children desperate to study in the world's largest refugee settlement, but at risk of missing out on crucial years of education and the chance to obtain formal qualifications.
More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after a military campaign in late 2017 that the United Nations has said was executed with "genocidal intent". Thousands more, like Kefayat, were born in Bangladesh after their parents fled earlier waves of violence.
Though Myanmar says it is ready to welcome back the refugees, northern Rakhine state, from where they fled, is still riven by ethnic tensions and violence, and the UN has said conditions are not right for them to return.
Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, meanwhile, has said the country cannot afford to integrate them.
"HUNGRY FOR EDUCATION"
In some countries, governments allow refugees to study in local schools, allowing them to gain recognised qualifications, or permit institutions in the camps to teach the national curriculum. But Bangladesh has not recognised the vast majority of the Rohingya as refugees and does not issue birth certificates for those born in the camps, making their legal status unclear.
The government has also forbidden centres in the camps from teaching the Bangladesh curriculum, according to the UN children's agency, UNICEF.
"Many students are depressed and frustrated," said a 21-year-old who asked not to be named because he was continuing to pass as Bangladeshi so he could go to university.
"Yes, we are somehow pretending to be Bangladeshi students. Yes, we have got some education. But now, where will we go? The world should think about this: if we can't study, our future will be damaged. We are hungry for education."
In the headmaster's office at Leda High School, piles of textbooks inscribed with the names of some of the 64 expelled students lay stacked in a corner.
"We are very sorry and disappointed about the decision," said the principal, Jamal Uddin. "The government is providing everything for the Rohingya – why not education?"
But others were relieved. Eighteen months on from the start of the crisis, and with no resolution in sight, some local people are losing patience.
In the grassy playground of the school, its founder, 48-year-old Kamal Uddin Ahmed, said the arrival of the Rohingya had been a massive upheaval for the local area.
"How do you think I feel?" he said. "We don't mind the Rohingya, but we mind our lives."
Intelligence officials who visited said it was "not safe for the country, not safe for our people" to have Rohingya in schools, he said.
Rohingya have been accused by some of bringing drugs and crime to Bangladesh."SHORT TERM"
In a letter to local headmasters dated January, Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission Chief Abul Kalam said that an intelligence report on the situation had been filed with the prime minister's office in November.
"It has been seen the trend of Rohingya children's participation in getting education has been increasing," Kalam said in the letter, seen by Reuters, adding that some Rohingya had obtained fake Bangladeshi identity documents through "dishonest public representatives". "It is advised to monitor strictly so that no Rohingya children can take education outside the camps or elsewhere in Bangladesh," he said.
Asked about his order to expel Rohingya children from local schools, Kalam said they were getting an education from learning centres in the camps.
"They are not allowed to enrol in Bangladeshi schools as they are not Bangladeshi citizens," he said.
But many children and their parents say the hundreds of learning centres operated in the camps by international NGOs and the UN offer mostly unstructured learning and playtime.
Bob Rae, Canada's Special Envoy to Myanmar, who has also travelled to Bangladesh, said Bangladesh authorities including Sheikh Hasina "have emphasised that the refugee camp is supposed to be 'short term' and that to talk about schooling beyond learning centres for very young children would risk giving the impression, to Myanmar and the world, that camps were there to stay".
SECRET STUDYING
In the camps, many children study by themselves from tattered textbooks carried from Myanmar or purchased at local markets, where stalls ply a swift trade in copies of the Myanmar curriculum smuggled across the border. Recent fighting in the region has made imports tougher, one stall owner said.
"There are many Rohingya who can't get the Myanmar curriculum – we are doing this so we can help them," said 20-year-old Nurul Ansur, the Bangladeshi proprietor of a print shop which specialises in copies of the textbooks, pulling a copy of 'Grade One Primer, Basic Education' from a filing cabinet.
A makeshift school staffed with Rohingya volunteer teachers opened in February, though the headteacher said they had no official permission to operate.
Karen Reidy, a communications officer at UNICEF, which leads education programming in the camps, said efforts were under way to adapt other countries' curriculums into a "learning framework" for refugee children.
"There's a risk in the camps that we will see a lost generation of children if we don't manage to catch them with education, with skills and training at this critical point in their lives," she said.
At Nayapara camp, the expelled students recounted stories from years of illicit study at the Bangladeshi schools. Some of their classmates were cruel, said Kefayat Ullah.
"They used the word 'Rohingya', 'Burma' to tease us," he said. "Nevertheless, we were happy. We need education."
One 15-year-old, Mohammed Yunus, said he had worked in a brick-field to pay for classes that his parents could not afford.
"Bangladesh wants to see us a good community," he said. "Also the UN wants to see us a good community, but if they block our education, how can we be?"
Kefayat Ullah had dreamed of graduating and becoming a journalist "to help our community". Now, he watches his Bangladeshi former classmates travel to and from class in their crisp white shirts.
"We feel sad when we see the local students studying in a nice place, quietly," he said. "Now we are always worried and thinking – what will we do?"
>> Reuters
Published: 18 Mar 2019 12:49 PM BdST Updated: 18 Mar 2019 02:03 PM BdST
Bangladeshi students from the class where Rohingya students were expelled by the authorities are seen at Leda high school, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Feb 9, 2019. Picture taken February 9, 2019. REUTERS/Jiraporn Kuhakan
A government investigation had outed him, along with dozens of his classmates, as a Rohingya refugee, a member of the mostly stateless Muslim minority from neighbouring Myanmar.
"Our headmaster called us into his office and told us that there's an order that Rohingya students have no rights to study here anymore," said the teenager, a small boy with cropped hair and a faint moustache. "We went back home crying."
For years, Bangladeshi schools have quietly admitted some of the Rohingya who live as refugees in sprawling camps on the country's southern coast, and whose numbers have swelled to more than 1 million since violence across the border in 2017. But the new influx has tested the hospitality of the Bangladeshi government, leading them to apply tighter controls on the population.
The recent expulsions highlight the struggle of hundreds of thousands of children desperate to study in the world's largest refugee settlement, but at risk of missing out on crucial years of education and the chance to obtain formal qualifications.
More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after a military campaign in late 2017 that the United Nations has said was executed with "genocidal intent". Thousands more, like Kefayat, were born in Bangladesh after their parents fled earlier waves of violence.
Though Myanmar says it is ready to welcome back the refugees, northern Rakhine state, from where they fled, is still riven by ethnic tensions and violence, and the UN has said conditions are not right for them to return.
Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, meanwhile, has said the country cannot afford to integrate them.
"HUNGRY FOR EDUCATION"
In some countries, governments allow refugees to study in local schools, allowing them to gain recognised qualifications, or permit institutions in the camps to teach the national curriculum. But Bangladesh has not recognised the vast majority of the Rohingya as refugees and does not issue birth certificates for those born in the camps, making their legal status unclear.
The government has also forbidden centres in the camps from teaching the Bangladesh curriculum, according to the UN children's agency, UNICEF.
"Many students are depressed and frustrated," said a 21-year-old who asked not to be named because he was continuing to pass as Bangladeshi so he could go to university.
"Yes, we are somehow pretending to be Bangladeshi students. Yes, we have got some education. But now, where will we go? The world should think about this: if we can't study, our future will be damaged. We are hungry for education."
In the headmaster's office at Leda High School, piles of textbooks inscribed with the names of some of the 64 expelled students lay stacked in a corner.
"We are very sorry and disappointed about the decision," said the principal, Jamal Uddin. "The government is providing everything for the Rohingya – why not education?"
But others were relieved. Eighteen months on from the start of the crisis, and with no resolution in sight, some local people are losing patience.
In the grassy playground of the school, its founder, 48-year-old Kamal Uddin Ahmed, said the arrival of the Rohingya had been a massive upheaval for the local area.
"How do you think I feel?" he said. "We don't mind the Rohingya, but we mind our lives."
Intelligence officials who visited said it was "not safe for the country, not safe for our people" to have Rohingya in schools, he said.
Rohingya have been accused by some of bringing drugs and crime to Bangladesh."SHORT TERM"
In a letter to local headmasters dated January, Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission Chief Abul Kalam said that an intelligence report on the situation had been filed with the prime minister's office in November.
"It has been seen the trend of Rohingya children's participation in getting education has been increasing," Kalam said in the letter, seen by Reuters, adding that some Rohingya had obtained fake Bangladeshi identity documents through "dishonest public representatives". "It is advised to monitor strictly so that no Rohingya children can take education outside the camps or elsewhere in Bangladesh," he said.
Asked about his order to expel Rohingya children from local schools, Kalam said they were getting an education from learning centres in the camps.
"They are not allowed to enrol in Bangladeshi schools as they are not Bangladeshi citizens," he said.
But many children and their parents say the hundreds of learning centres operated in the camps by international NGOs and the UN offer mostly unstructured learning and playtime.
Bob Rae, Canada's Special Envoy to Myanmar, who has also travelled to Bangladesh, said Bangladesh authorities including Sheikh Hasina "have emphasised that the refugee camp is supposed to be 'short term' and that to talk about schooling beyond learning centres for very young children would risk giving the impression, to Myanmar and the world, that camps were there to stay".
SECRET STUDYING
In the camps, many children study by themselves from tattered textbooks carried from Myanmar or purchased at local markets, where stalls ply a swift trade in copies of the Myanmar curriculum smuggled across the border. Recent fighting in the region has made imports tougher, one stall owner said.
"There are many Rohingya who can't get the Myanmar curriculum – we are doing this so we can help them," said 20-year-old Nurul Ansur, the Bangladeshi proprietor of a print shop which specialises in copies of the textbooks, pulling a copy of 'Grade One Primer, Basic Education' from a filing cabinet.
A makeshift school staffed with Rohingya volunteer teachers opened in February, though the headteacher said they had no official permission to operate.
Karen Reidy, a communications officer at UNICEF, which leads education programming in the camps, said efforts were under way to adapt other countries' curriculums into a "learning framework" for refugee children.
"There's a risk in the camps that we will see a lost generation of children if we don't manage to catch them with education, with skills and training at this critical point in their lives," she said.
At Nayapara camp, the expelled students recounted stories from years of illicit study at the Bangladeshi schools. Some of their classmates were cruel, said Kefayat Ullah.
"They used the word 'Rohingya', 'Burma' to tease us," he said. "Nevertheless, we were happy. We need education."
One 15-year-old, Mohammed Yunus, said he had worked in a brick-field to pay for classes that his parents could not afford.
"Bangladesh wants to see us a good community," he said. "Also the UN wants to see us a good community, but if they block our education, how can we be?"
Kefayat Ullah had dreamed of graduating and becoming a journalist "to help our community". Now, he watches his Bangladeshi former classmates travel to and from class in their crisp white shirts.
"We feel sad when we see the local students studying in a nice place, quietly," he said. "Now we are always worried and thinking – what will we do?"
https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/...safe-zone-for-rohingyas-in-rakhine-1554790207
BD seeks US support to create safe zone for Rohingyas in Rakhine
Rohingya repatriation stressed during Momen-Pompeo talks
Published: April 09, 2019 12:10:07 | Updated: April 09, 2019 12:52:15
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington, DC during a meeting on Monday (local time). Photo courtesy: Press Wing, Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, DC
Bangladesh has sought US support to create a safe zone for Rohingyas in Rakhine state, monitored by international human rights groups, with credible international pressure on Myanmar for their safe return.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington, DC on Monday (local time) and discussed the situation.
This was the first meeting between the two leaders since their assumption of office in respective governments, reports UNB.
Issues featuring in the meeting were: repatriation of the Rohingyas and creation of credible international pressure on Myanmar in that respect, deportation of Bangabandhu's killer Rashed Chowdhury from USA to Bangladesh, shared vision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, US investments in Bangladesh, duty and quota free access of Bangladesh's garments products to the US market, and US-Bangladesh partnership in multiple sectors.
The minister informed that Bangladesh at its own expense has developed the island "Bhashanchar" into a livable place in which 0.1 million (1 lakh) Rohingyas are planned to be relocated in coordination with UN agencies and different aid groups, according to Bangladesh Embassy in Washington.
The US Secretary of State re-assured that the one million plus forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals have to return to their country without any form of fear and persecution.
He said it is the responsibility of the Myanmar government and military to create conducive environment so that the Rohingyas feel safe to return home.
The US Secretary of State reiterated that US would stand beside Bangladesh (both politically and financially) in finding a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis.
He also lauded the humanitarian gesture of the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for temporarily sheltering the persecuted Rohingyas.
Regarding deportation of Bangabandhu's self-confessed and convicted killer Rashed Chowdhury from the USA, the Bangladesh Foreign Minister pointed out that he is fleeing justice.
He said this is essential to carry out a vital common agenda of both countries pertaining to Counter-terrorism and Countering-Violent Extremism and upholding rule of law.
Both leaders agreed that for greater prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region, vital energy and infrastructure projects need to be implemented on regional partnership basis.
In that respect, leaders of the region need to work together on issues such as governance, accountability, rule of law, and maritime security.
Dr. Momen stated that Bangladesh is lauded internationally for its impressive development journey.
He sought more investment from the USA in the oil and gas sector and US presence in the Special Economic Zones.
Foreign Minister Momen sought US support to the candidature of Bangladesh in the upcoming election to the post of Deputy Director General of International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Later in the day, the visiting Bangladesh Minister held meetings with senior officials of the US State Department and Deputy National Security Adviser Charles Kupperman. Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Ambassador Mohammad Ziauddin accompanied the Minister at the meetings.
BD seeks US support to create safe zone for Rohingyas in Rakhine
Rohingya repatriation stressed during Momen-Pompeo talks
Published: April 09, 2019 12:10:07 | Updated: April 09, 2019 12:52:15
Bangladesh has sought US support to create a safe zone for Rohingyas in Rakhine state, monitored by international human rights groups, with credible international pressure on Myanmar for their safe return.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington, DC on Monday (local time) and discussed the situation.
This was the first meeting between the two leaders since their assumption of office in respective governments, reports UNB.
Issues featuring in the meeting were: repatriation of the Rohingyas and creation of credible international pressure on Myanmar in that respect, deportation of Bangabandhu's killer Rashed Chowdhury from USA to Bangladesh, shared vision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, US investments in Bangladesh, duty and quota free access of Bangladesh's garments products to the US market, and US-Bangladesh partnership in multiple sectors.
The minister informed that Bangladesh at its own expense has developed the island "Bhashanchar" into a livable place in which 0.1 million (1 lakh) Rohingyas are planned to be relocated in coordination with UN agencies and different aid groups, according to Bangladesh Embassy in Washington.
The US Secretary of State re-assured that the one million plus forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals have to return to their country without any form of fear and persecution.
He said it is the responsibility of the Myanmar government and military to create conducive environment so that the Rohingyas feel safe to return home.
The US Secretary of State reiterated that US would stand beside Bangladesh (both politically and financially) in finding a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis.
He also lauded the humanitarian gesture of the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for temporarily sheltering the persecuted Rohingyas.
Regarding deportation of Bangabandhu's self-confessed and convicted killer Rashed Chowdhury from the USA, the Bangladesh Foreign Minister pointed out that he is fleeing justice.
He said this is essential to carry out a vital common agenda of both countries pertaining to Counter-terrorism and Countering-Violent Extremism and upholding rule of law.
Both leaders agreed that for greater prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region, vital energy and infrastructure projects need to be implemented on regional partnership basis.
In that respect, leaders of the region need to work together on issues such as governance, accountability, rule of law, and maritime security.
Dr. Momen stated that Bangladesh is lauded internationally for its impressive development journey.
He sought more investment from the USA in the oil and gas sector and US presence in the Special Economic Zones.
Foreign Minister Momen sought US support to the candidature of Bangladesh in the upcoming election to the post of Deputy Director General of International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Later in the day, the visiting Bangladesh Minister held meetings with senior officials of the US State Department and Deputy National Security Adviser Charles Kupperman. Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Ambassador Mohammad Ziauddin accompanied the Minister at the meetings.
Rohingyas, as well as the Buddhists, belong to Arakan/Rakhine. Burma has occupied Arakan and so should be expelled by the Arakanese. They do not need any overlord Bamars in their midst. Just get out!!
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https://www.medianama.com/2019/06/2...-in-rakhine-and-chin-amid-escalated-tensions/
Could this lead to something bigger?
Could this lead to something bigger?
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