Special Correspondent :
Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Masud Bin Momen has urged the Security Council to keep a close eye on the Rakhine State’s unstable situation to resist recurrence of violence against Rohingya.
Masud told this during the Tuesday’s UN Security Council meeting on the developments in Myanmar.
In fact, the meeting was a follow-up to the Security Council’s presidential statement on the situation in Myanmar adopted on November 6, which requested the UN Secretary-General to brief on developments 30 days after its adoption.
“Bangladesh is very much concerned following the further incidents of arson at Rohingya villages in north and central Rakhine. These incidents prove that Myanmar authority’s claim about returning normalcy and stability in the area is false,” Masud said, according to information received in Dhaka yesterday.
He also described the shortcomings of bilateral agreement signed between Dhaka and Naypyidaw on November 23 in presence of Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and Myanmar’s leader Aung Sang Suu kyi.
As per the agreement, the Rohingya repatriation will be started within next two months by forming a joint working group. It will need to provide a filled-up form with name and address and copy of identification to Myanmar authorities. The newly signed pact follows a formula set in a 1992 repatriation agreement signed by the two nations after an earlier bout of violence.
“The scope is limited in the latest bilateral agreement. Particularly, there is no mention about the real reason behind the long-standing crisis, for which a preplanned ethnic cleansing is going on in Rakhine state,” Masud Bin Momen said.
“Even if we consider that the agreement was signed with an honest desire, we don’t see any assurance of a pleasant atmosphere for mid or long term staying of the returnees….I also demand free entrance of human rights organizations to the affected areas, so that they can exactly watch the sufferings of Rohingya people,” he said.
Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Masud Bin Momen has urged the Security Council to keep a close eye on the Rakhine State’s unstable situation to resist recurrence of violence against Rohingya.
Masud told this during the Tuesday’s UN Security Council meeting on the developments in Myanmar.
In fact, the meeting was a follow-up to the Security Council’s presidential statement on the situation in Myanmar adopted on November 6, which requested the UN Secretary-General to brief on developments 30 days after its adoption.
“Bangladesh is very much concerned following the further incidents of arson at Rohingya villages in north and central Rakhine. These incidents prove that Myanmar authority’s claim about returning normalcy and stability in the area is false,” Masud said, according to information received in Dhaka yesterday.
He also described the shortcomings of bilateral agreement signed between Dhaka and Naypyidaw on November 23 in presence of Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and Myanmar’s leader Aung Sang Suu kyi.
As per the agreement, the Rohingya repatriation will be started within next two months by forming a joint working group. It will need to provide a filled-up form with name and address and copy of identification to Myanmar authorities. The newly signed pact follows a formula set in a 1992 repatriation agreement signed by the two nations after an earlier bout of violence.
“The scope is limited in the latest bilateral agreement. Particularly, there is no mention about the real reason behind the long-standing crisis, for which a preplanned ethnic cleansing is going on in Rakhine state,” Masud Bin Momen said.
“Even if we consider that the agreement was signed with an honest desire, we don’t see any assurance of a pleasant atmosphere for mid or long term staying of the returnees….I also demand free entrance of human rights organizations to the affected areas, so that they can exactly watch the sufferings of Rohingya people,” he said.
