Proposes
US Congressman
Referring
to the US supporting the split of South Sudan from Sudan, he asked why the
government will not take similar step about Myanmar for the protection of the
civil rights of Rohingya people in Rakhine.Sherman, the chairman of the
Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific of the Congress, described as genocide the
atrocities Myanmar forces had unleashed against the Rohingyas, the Muslim
minority in the predominately Buddhist country.
News
Desk (The Asian Age)
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Congressman of the United States has proposed bringing Rakhine state of Myanmar
under the Bangladesh territory, arguing that Naypyidaw has failed to protect
its nationals in that area.Bradley James Sherman made the proposal in the
Congress during a hearing on the budget for South Asia on June 13, urging the
US State Department to consider the matter.
Tweets of Rohingya Activist regarding the proposal of US Congressman” https://t.co/cM9x6phqDF
Tweets of Rohingya Activist regarding the proposal of US Congressman” https://t.co/cM9x6phqDF
Referring
to the US supporting the split of South Sudan from Sudan, he asked why the
government will not take similar step about Myanmar for the protection of the
civil rights of Rohingya people in Rakhine.Sherman, the chairman of the
Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific of the Congress, described as genocide the
atrocities Myanmar forces had unleashed against the Rohingyas, the Muslim
minority in the predominately Buddhist country.
Hundreds
of thousands of Rohingya people fled to Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh to
escape atrocities that the international community, including the United
Nations, has termed crimes against humanity. Sherman said it is logical to
include Rakhine in Bangladesh territory as the country has taken the
responsibility of the people there whereas Myanmar failed to protect them,
according to a report of a national daily published from Dhaka.
Diplomats
of the Trump administration neither support nor reject the proposal. Myanmar
does not recognize the Rohingyas as their citizens despite a long history of
their presence in the country. The lack of the recognition has left Rohingyas
to be the world's largest stateless population.
About 1 million of them are in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands remain
in Myanmar and others are scattered throughout Asia. Myanmar agreed to take
back its nationals from Bangladesh after verification of their identities amid
repeated calls from Bangladesh and pressure from the international community.
Naypyidaw took back several hundreds of Rohingya people from Bangladesh but the process stopped due to its lack of interest in carrying on the process.
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Naypyidaw took back several hundreds of Rohingya people from Bangladesh but the process stopped due to its lack of interest in carrying on the process.
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Read
here: The activist has thanked to the congressman and said “this is the only way to solve the
Rohingya crisis forever unless sooner may disappear the Rohingyas from the land.”
https://t.co/xOhdCoRifB
