ANI | Updated: Dec 25, 2017
Dhaka [Bangladesh], December 25 (ANI): Bangladesh Health
Minister Mohammed Nasim has said that Rohingya refugees will return to their
homeland as soon as the international community and the UN pressurise Myanmar
into repatriating them.
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"Bangladesh government has an extremely tolerant
approach towards Rohingyas and we are also working to implement the Rohingya
Repatriation deal," Dhaka Times quoted Health Minister Mohammed Nasim as
saying at a grants distribution program in Cox's Bazar on Monday.
Lauding the efforts of the locals of Cox's Bazar for
their unimaginable support towards Rohingyas, Nasim claimed that not a single
Rohingya died without a treatment on Bangladesh soil.
Myanmar and Bangladesh had earlier this month formed
Joint Working Group (JWG) to handle the repatriation of Rohingya refugees.
The crucial JWG with 15 each from Bangladesh and Myanmar
will oversee the repatriation of over 600,000 Rohingya refugees who have taken
shelter in Bangladesh to escape ethnic violence in the latter.
Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Huq will head the JWG from
the Bangladesh side while the Myanmar side will be headed by Permanent
Secretary at Myanmar Foreign Ministry Myint Thu.
More than 655,000 Rohingyas have crossed into Bangladesh
since August 25, escaping a military crackdown in Rakhine state, which many
countries and human rights bodies have described as ethnic cleansing.
The military action was triggered after their posts
became targets of terrorist attacks.
There is global outrage over the distressing plight of
dispossessed Rohingya in Bangladeshi camps currently.
A majority of them left the Rakhine state at the end of
August this year, recounting incidents of murder, rape and arson at the hands
of the Myanmar Army.
On October 12, a United Nations' report based on
interviews conducted in Bangladesh found that brutal attacks against Rohingyas
in the northern Rakhine state have been well-organised, coordinated and
systematic, with the intent of not only driving the population out of Myanmar
but preventing them from returning to their homes.
The Rakhine state is home to a majority of Muslims in
Myanmar, who have been denied citizenship and long faced persecution in the
Buddhist-majority country, especially from the extremists.(ANI)
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