Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh has handed over a fresh list of around 50,000 Rohingyas to Myanmar authorities for verification before their repatriation to their homes of origin in Rakhine State.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told the reporters on Tuesday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He said, there are many stages of preparing a list and they are now expediting the process to facilitate the verification and repatriation.
With this, Bangladesh has so far handed over names of about one lakh Rohingyas to the Myanmar authorities with the previous number being 55,000.
On July 29, Bangladesh handed over a list of 25,000 Rohingyas to Myanmar for verification before their repatriation to their place of origin in Rakhine State.
On January 16, 2018, Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a document on “Physical Arrangement”, which was supposed to facilitate the return of Rohingyas to their homeland.
The “Physical Arrangement” stipulates that the repatriation will be completed preferably within two years from the start.
There were two attempts of Rohingya repatriation on November 15 last year and this year, but those were unsuccessful as Myanmar authorities “failed to build confidence” among Rohingyas and their unwillingness to return for lack of a congenial environment in Rakhine.
On September 23 in New York, Bangladesh, China and Myanmar agreed to form a “tripartite joint working mechanism” to evaluate the situation on the ground for Rohingya repatriation.
The first meeting of the tripartite working body is scheduled to be held this month.
Asked about the meeting, Dr Momen said, the meeting will be held but did not give any specific date. “It’ll be held. A process is going on.”
Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas and most of them entered Bangladesh since August 25, 2017 amid military crackdown on them.
Bangladesh has handed over a fresh list of around 50,000 Rohingyas to Myanmar authorities for verification before their repatriation to their homes of origin in Rakhine State.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told the reporters on Tuesday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He said, there are many stages of preparing a list and they are now expediting the process to facilitate the verification and repatriation.
With this, Bangladesh has so far handed over names of about one lakh Rohingyas to the Myanmar authorities with the previous number being 55,000.
On July 29, Bangladesh handed over a list of 25,000 Rohingyas to Myanmar for verification before their repatriation to their place of origin in Rakhine State.
On January 16, 2018, Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a document on “Physical Arrangement”, which was supposed to facilitate the return of Rohingyas to their homeland.
The “Physical Arrangement” stipulates that the repatriation will be completed preferably within two years from the start.
There were two attempts of Rohingya repatriation on November 15 last year and this year, but those were unsuccessful as Myanmar authorities “failed to build confidence” among Rohingyas and their unwillingness to return for lack of a congenial environment in Rakhine.
On September 23 in New York, Bangladesh, China and Myanmar agreed to form a “tripartite joint working mechanism” to evaluate the situation on the ground for Rohingya repatriation.
The first meeting of the tripartite working body is scheduled to be held this month.
Asked about the meeting, Dr Momen said, the meeting will be held but did not give any specific date. “It’ll be held. A process is going on.”
Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas and most of them entered Bangladesh since August 25, 2017 amid military crackdown on them.
