Editorial Desk :
Myanmar’s military deployment on the border must be urgently responded; it is clearly playing foul with Bangladesh’s peaceful response to Rohingyas crisis. They are treating our tolerance as our big weakness and that must end here. We must meet force with force. The deployment of huge force on Thursday with heavy weapons along the Tombru border adjacent to no-man’s land came as a big surprise. This is a clear provocation to sabotage repatriation of Rohingya refugees at a time when Bangladesh is waiting to start the process any time soon.
We demand Myanmar military should pull back forthwith to establish normalcy at border to allow peace to prevails and the repatriation process to go ahead. What’s surprising is that, the sudden deployment occurred barely 10 days after Myanmar’s Home Minister; who is also a General agreed to take back over 6,500 stranded Rohingyas from no-man’s land as they were waiting to enter Bangladesh.
It is not unlikely that Myanmar has created the military situation at border to push back the stranded refugees inside Bangladesh instead of taking back them as promised by Myanmar General during his visit to Dhaka last month. Their gun fire reportedly killed 7 refugees and caused panic around Rohingya camps. Myanmar military was able in the process to push many of them on the Bangladesh side of the border.
Meanwhile there is also no visible response on the list of 8,032 refugees that Bangladesh handed over to the Myanmar Minister to start with the repatriation process.
The military activities on the border of Bangladesh again shows the murderous Myanmar regime is highly deceitful and can’t be trusted. We are telling it to our government and international community from the beginning but when Bangladesh government shows helplessness we are also baffled why the international community has so far failed to act against the brutal regime recklessly inviting war situation in the region.
Myanmar’s recent actions only show it considers Bangladesh as an enemy nation while Dhaka is trying to resolve the crisis peacefully. We are unhappy that we have no political leadership to deal with a military situation. We are urging the government that its policy of being on the knees is not helpful to give adequate response to Myanmar’s military adventure along our border and forcing on us huge number of refugees.
We have a domesticated opposition in the parliament and such parliament is useless for any sensible debate at a time our security is on threat from across the border.
Myanmar’s military deployment on the border must be urgently responded; it is clearly playing foul with Bangladesh’s peaceful response to Rohingyas crisis. They are treating our tolerance as our big weakness and that must end here. We must meet force with force. The deployment of huge force on Thursday with heavy weapons along the Tombru border adjacent to no-man’s land came as a big surprise. This is a clear provocation to sabotage repatriation of Rohingya refugees at a time when Bangladesh is waiting to start the process any time soon.
We demand Myanmar military should pull back forthwith to establish normalcy at border to allow peace to prevails and the repatriation process to go ahead. What’s surprising is that, the sudden deployment occurred barely 10 days after Myanmar’s Home Minister; who is also a General agreed to take back over 6,500 stranded Rohingyas from no-man’s land as they were waiting to enter Bangladesh.
It is not unlikely that Myanmar has created the military situation at border to push back the stranded refugees inside Bangladesh instead of taking back them as promised by Myanmar General during his visit to Dhaka last month. Their gun fire reportedly killed 7 refugees and caused panic around Rohingya camps. Myanmar military was able in the process to push many of them on the Bangladesh side of the border.
Meanwhile there is also no visible response on the list of 8,032 refugees that Bangladesh handed over to the Myanmar Minister to start with the repatriation process.
The military activities on the border of Bangladesh again shows the murderous Myanmar regime is highly deceitful and can’t be trusted. We are telling it to our government and international community from the beginning but when Bangladesh government shows helplessness we are also baffled why the international community has so far failed to act against the brutal regime recklessly inviting war situation in the region.
Myanmar’s recent actions only show it considers Bangladesh as an enemy nation while Dhaka is trying to resolve the crisis peacefully. We are unhappy that we have no political leadership to deal with a military situation. We are urging the government that its policy of being on the knees is not helpful to give adequate response to Myanmar’s military adventure along our border and forcing on us huge number of refugees.
We have a domesticated opposition in the parliament and such parliament is useless for any sensible debate at a time our security is on threat from across the border.
