Rohingyas must return
The governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh seem to agree that forcibly displaced people from the Rakhine State of Myanmar, who are currently sheltered in refugee camps in Bangladesh, have to return to the land of origin sooner or later. For Bangladesh, it’s obvious that nearly a million or so Rohingya refugees should go back to Rakhine State where they had lived for generations until recently.
On the other hand, by citing Rohingyas as being of Indo-Aryan race, Myanmar is clearly disowning them and refusing to acknowledge that they are native to Myanmar. Myanmar’s central argument doesn’t hold water and it is beyond unfortunate that over the years, they have promoted such hateful rhetoric against the Rohingya minority that today the entire society in Myanmar harbours resentment against them.
Jeyaraj Veluswamy
Kolkata
