Staff Reporter :
Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque on Thursday said, the government has decided to call Rohingya people “displaced nationals of Myanmar” instead of “refugees”.
The foreign secretary made the announcement at a programme organised by Human Rights Forum Bangladesh at CIRDAP in the capital.
The government has strong logic behind this decision, he said.
The mater will be raised in the United Nations during the next opportune moment, he added.
For many years, Bangladesh has been trying to resolve the issue bilaterally but in vain, he said.
“So, we are trying now to involve as many countries and organizations as possible to reach a solution multilaterally, the secretary said.
Bangladesh has received a huge number of Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state since August 25.
On Tuesday, the UN cited the number of Rohingya refugees as 480,000- sixty percent of them are children.
International concern is growing over the fate of the Rohingya people who have been fleeing an army hate campaign in the Rakhine state that the United Nations has included killings, rape and the torching of villages.
The violent military operation began on August 25 in view of a reported ARSA attack on military outpost.
