bdnews24.com :
Washington is watching “carefully” the situation in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border after Burma’s deployment of additional troops on their side.
Meeting between Myanmar, Bangladesh border guards Friday
Tension escalates at Myanmar border
Bangladesh protested the move on Thursday afternoon by summoning Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka. But hours after Burmese border police fired shots in the air on their side of the Tambru border at Naikkhyangchharhi in Bandarban. “I can just tell you that we’re watching that carefully. I can certainly understand that would be a concern of the government of Bangladesh, but we’re watching that one closely,” Department of State’s Spokesperson Heather Nauert said, replying to a query at the regular briefing in Washington on Thursday.
Around 17,000 Rohingyas have been living in no man’s land between the countries, including nearly 7,000 in Tambru, since Myanmar launched a military operation dubbed “ethnic cleansing” in the Rakhine State on Aug 25 last year. Myanmar’s latest move puts at risk the Rohingyas on the Tambru border.
“We also heard a hullabaloo in the Rohingya camp on the zero line at the time [firing]. No one was injured,” Bangladesh guard 34 Battalion Commander Lt Col Manjurul Hasan had told bdnews24.com.
The foreign minister handed a protest note to the Myanmar Ambassador and said such military buildup would create confusion in Bangladesh and escalate tensions on the border.
Bangladesh also expressed the concern that such event may hamper repatriation process which both sides agreed to implement.
Around 700,000 Rohingyas fled into Bangladesh since Aug 25 last year when the military crackdown began in the Rakhine State.
Washington is watching “carefully” the situation in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border after Burma’s deployment of additional troops on their side.
Meeting between Myanmar, Bangladesh border guards Friday
Tension escalates at Myanmar border
Bangladesh protested the move on Thursday afternoon by summoning Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka. But hours after Burmese border police fired shots in the air on their side of the Tambru border at Naikkhyangchharhi in Bandarban. “I can just tell you that we’re watching that carefully. I can certainly understand that would be a concern of the government of Bangladesh, but we’re watching that one closely,” Department of State’s Spokesperson Heather Nauert said, replying to a query at the regular briefing in Washington on Thursday.
Around 17,000 Rohingyas have been living in no man’s land between the countries, including nearly 7,000 in Tambru, since Myanmar launched a military operation dubbed “ethnic cleansing” in the Rakhine State on Aug 25 last year. Myanmar’s latest move puts at risk the Rohingyas on the Tambru border.
“We also heard a hullabaloo in the Rohingya camp on the zero line at the time [firing]. No one was injured,” Bangladesh guard 34 Battalion Commander Lt Col Manjurul Hasan had told bdnews24.com.
The foreign minister handed a protest note to the Myanmar Ambassador and said such military buildup would create confusion in Bangladesh and escalate tensions on the border.
Bangladesh also expressed the concern that such event may hamper repatriation process which both sides agreed to implement.
Around 700,000 Rohingyas fled into Bangladesh since Aug 25 last year when the military crackdown began in the Rakhine State.
