{"id":1928,"date":"2018-09-19T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:17:21","slug":"bangladesh-says-it-wont-assimilate-rohingya-muslims-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/09\/19\/bangladesh-says-it-wont-assimilate-rohingya-muslims-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh says it won’t assimilate Rohingya Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

HANOI: Bangladesh has no plans to take in hundreds of thousands of\u00a0Rohingya Muslim refugees<\/a>\u00a0permanently, its foreign secretary said on Wednesday, adding that they \u201cbelong\u201d to Myanmar from where they fled.<\/p>\n

Some 700,000\u00a0Rohingya refugees<\/a>\u00a0crossed from the west of mostly Buddhist Myanmar into Bangladesh from August last year, according to U.N. agencies, when Rohingya insurgent attacks on Myanmar security forces triggered a sweeping military response.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh and Myanmar reached a deal in November to begin repatriation within two months, but it has not started, with stateless Rohingya still crossing the border.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not thinking of assimilating them in Bangladesh. They belong to Myanmar,\u201d Foreign Secretary\u00a0Shahidul Haque<\/a>\u00a0told Reuters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi.<\/p>\n

He also called on developed countries to take in more Rohingya on a humanitarian basis.<\/p>\n

The Rohingya would stay in refugee camps until they return to Myanmar or are resettled in other countries, Haque said.<\/p>\n

U.N. investigators last month said Myanmar\u2019s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya with \u201cgenocidal intent\u201d, and that the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for the gravest crimes under international law.<\/p>\n

Myanmar has denied allegations of atrocities, saying its military carried out justifiable actions against militants.<\/p>\n

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It has built transit centres for refugees to return, but U.N. aid agencies say it is not yet safe for them to do so.<\/p>\n

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The Rohingya in Bangladesh are housed in camps in\u00a0Cox\u2019s Bazar<\/a>. With a delay in the repatriation plan, Bangladesh has been preparing new homes on a remote island called Bhasan Char, which rights groups have said could be subject to flooding.<\/p>\n

Haque told Reuters the island could be ready within months for the Rohingya to move in, adding that the plan to house the Rohingya there was only temporary.<\/p>\n

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Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister this month urged the global community to increase pressure on Myanmar to ensure the repatriation of the Rohingya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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