Traders display a ‘Raja Ilish’ weighing three kg was caught in the fishing net of a trawler named FB Shahid in Kochikhali area, Barguna, of Bay of Bengal on Sunday. NN photo

Making the Rohingya stateless

THE Myanmar government’s “Rakhine State Action Plan” would establish discriminatory policies that would deprive Rohingya Muslims of citizenship and lead to them being relocated to permanent refugee camps. The recently released plan, according to Human Rights Watch, is “a blueprint for permanent segregation and statelessness” and does not recognize the term Rohingya, but refers to the nationals as “Bengalis,” a term that expands and solidifies the discriminations and underpin the decades long persecution of the Rohingya. If the centuries old...

5 Oct 2014, 12:00 am