Special Correspondent :
Law Minister Advocate Anisul Haque on Sunday said that Rohingya people can go to the international court to get justice over the ongoing crisis in Myanmar.
Anisul Haque made the statement at a time when over 400,000 Myanmar nationals have taken shelter in the country’s southeastern bordering district of Cox’s Bazar being driven away by the Myanmar army after August 25.
“If they want, the Rohingya people can go to the international court to get justice…and to get a solution over the crisis. There are several examples in the world where different nations went to international court. However, it’s up to them whether they will move for international court or not,” he said while addressing a programme in the capital.
Local sources said at present about 10 lakhs registered and unregistered Rohingyas are staying in Bangladesh. Of them, 5/6 lakhs had entered here since 1982. He said, “Bangladesh hosts Rohingya refugees on humanitarian grounds as the government seeks peaceful solution to the Rohingya problem….The Foreign Ministry is making its efforts to exert international pressure on Myanmar to reach a peaceful solution to the problem.”
“Bangladesh is densely populated country with 16 crore population, even so we are giving shelter to the Rohingya people,” the Minister said.
International community, including United States and United Kingdom, have already expressed severe concern about the Myanmar army’s cleansing operation against the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State.
Not only that, the visiting Trade Envoy of the UK Prime Minister to Bangladesh Rushnara Ali, MP, on Sunday said the role of Myanmar government towards its Rohingya ethnic minorities is not acceptable.
Referring to the humanitarian crisis, the British MP assured of increasing UK aids and investments in Bangladesh. Meanwhile, Myanmar’s army chief General Min Aung Hlaing, has urged his countrymen to unite over the “Rohingya issue”; saying that they have no roots in the country [Myanmar]. According to a report ran by AFP, the military – which is accused of systematically purging of Rohingyas — says its “clearance operations” in northern Rakhine State are aimed at taking out Rohingya militants who attacked police posts on August 25.
In a status on his official Facebook page on Saturday [September 16], General Min Aung Hlaing, “They have demanded recognition as Rohingya, which has never been an ethnic group in Myanmar. [The] Bengali issue is a national cause and we need to be united in establishing the truth,” the post said.
