Staff Reporter :
Foreign diplomats of three countries on Thursday visited the Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia to observe the overall situation of the inmates there.
British High Commissioner Alison Blake, Canadian High Commissioner Benoît-Pierre Laramée and Australian High Commissioner Julia Niblett during their visit listened to horrific tale of Rohingya refugees.
They talked to at least 30 Rohingyas who narrated them about the barbarism of the Myanmar security forces during the crackdown.
Earlier in the day, they visited the Ukhia Health Complex. The envoys also had a meeting with ADC (general) Kazi Abdur Rahman.
Alison Blake termed the crackdown on Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as genocide.
“It might be tantamount to genocide,” she told journalists after visiting Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar.
Blake said, the Rohingya refugees shared their experiences of torture, repression and mass killings by the Myanmar authorities.
“If their statement is true, it can be ascertained that the crackdown at Rakhine state is tantamount to genocide,” Alison Blake said.
The British high commissioner, however, stressed the need for extending the international cooperation for protecting the lives and rightsf Rohingya people in Myanmar.
Earlier on January 29 and 30, a three-member team of Annan Commission visited two unregistered Rohingya camps in Ukhia and Teknaf while a nine-member delegation, led by US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat, visited Ukhia and Teknaf on January 31.
