The minister said Dhaka came to know that Myanmar wants
to send a fact finding mission in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is preparing a “factsheet” to negate Myanmar
propaganda over the Rohingya issue to downplay the intensity and camouflage
Naypyidaw role in creating and prolonging the crisis.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen made the statement to
the media at his ministry office on Sunday.
“I have directed my ministry to prepare a brief paper on
Rohingyas, so that no one will be confused about the facts, and send it to all
193 member states missions at the UN,” he said.
Minister Momen said Myanmar was disseminating different
type of “misinformation” with an apparent motive to decline that Rohingyas were
their nationals, reports BSS.
Naypyidaw, he said, was trying to claim that only 5
million Rohingyas to refuge in Bangladesh and even propagating that they were
actually Bangladesh citizens.
“They (Myanmar) are trying to camouflage the Rohingya
crisis with propaganda,” the foreign minister said, adding that Naypyidaw
appointed different organizations to make fabricated reports to confuse the
world about the issue.
He, however, said Dhaka just intends to reply to
Myanmar’s propaganda regarding the Rohingya crisis.
The minister said Dhaka came to know that Myanmar wants
to send a fact finding mission in Bangladesh while “we always welcome them as
we are always transparent”.
“We would like to know how many of them want to come and
how many days to stay here . . . but the Myanmar government is yet to inform us
anything officially about their fact finding mission,” he said.
He said Bangladesh has long been urging Myanmar to send
their team to assure the Rohingyas about conducive environment in Rakhine.
“We urged Myanmar to take some Rohingya leaders inside
Rakhine to show them physically that they (Rohingya) will be safe after their
return home,” he said.
The minister also binned an Asean (Association of
Southeast Asian Nations) report saying the study picked only two out of the 800
villages as samples of Myanmar atrocities in Rakine, Rohingyas homeland. “This
is a twisted report with distorted information,” Minister Momen said.
The minister said the Rohingya crisis was likely to
largely feature Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming Beijing tour as Dhaka
planned to explain to China that the crisis could eventually spread radicalism
throughout the entire region.
“We will tell them (China), if peace and security do not
prevail in the region, the huge Chinese investment in Myanmar as well as in
Bangladesh will be threatened,” Minister Momen said.
Bangladesh now hosts over 1.1 million forcefully
displaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar district, most of who have arrived after a
military crackdown in August 25, 2017, which the UN called a “textbook example
of ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” by other rights groups.
Source: DhakaTribune
Source: DhakaTribune