Editorial Desk :
Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali has sought sustained political support of the EU for a sustainable solution to Rohingya problem while discussing the issue with European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides on Wednesday in the city. The EU envoy said in talks with the minister that the EU wants safe and dignified return of Rohingyas to their abandoned homes.
He has made the wish but without initiating effective discussion with Myanmar government and using power and influence such wish stands meaningless. The leadership must come from EU and powerful nations, as Bangladesh is a helpless victim of the exodus of Rohingyas.
Myanmar government is committing ethnic cleansing militarily and the suggestion from Christos Stylianides shows his lack of understanding of the crisis. He could not think of anything other than providing aid to the refugees uprooted from their own homeland. He has left behind a very bad impression about the role of the European Union that is expected to play.
Against the determined military operation of the Myanmar to uproot the Rohingyas from their once free Rakhine Muslim State Christos Stylianides expressed his thinking that the solution to deep crisis lies in political discussion. We welcome his visit to Bangladesh for his concern to see the human crisis Bangladesh is facing. But the kind of international cooperation needed to force Myanmar to accept that Rakhine State belongs to Muslim Rohyngyas and the Burmese Buddhist have no right to keep Rakhine state occupied is missing.
Powerful nations must urgently come up with concrete actions for internationally considered right solution. The Rohingyas are not stateless, they have the Rakhine State for themselves. The Buddhists with the help Myanmar military are making them stateless. We cannot think of any peaceful solution with brutal Myanmar. We do not want the European Union to mislead the world about the kind of solution Rohingyas need.
Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali has sought sustained political support of the EU for a sustainable solution to Rohingya problem while discussing the issue with European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides on Wednesday in the city. The EU envoy said in talks with the minister that the EU wants safe and dignified return of Rohingyas to their abandoned homes.
He has made the wish but without initiating effective discussion with Myanmar government and using power and influence such wish stands meaningless. The leadership must come from EU and powerful nations, as Bangladesh is a helpless victim of the exodus of Rohingyas.
Myanmar government is committing ethnic cleansing militarily and the suggestion from Christos Stylianides shows his lack of understanding of the crisis. He could not think of anything other than providing aid to the refugees uprooted from their own homeland. He has left behind a very bad impression about the role of the European Union that is expected to play.
Against the determined military operation of the Myanmar to uproot the Rohingyas from their once free Rakhine Muslim State Christos Stylianides expressed his thinking that the solution to deep crisis lies in political discussion. We welcome his visit to Bangladesh for his concern to see the human crisis Bangladesh is facing. But the kind of international cooperation needed to force Myanmar to accept that Rakhine State belongs to Muslim Rohyngyas and the Burmese Buddhist have no right to keep Rakhine state occupied is missing.
Powerful nations must urgently come up with concrete actions for internationally considered right solution. The Rohingyas are not stateless, they have the Rakhine State for themselves. The Buddhists with the help Myanmar military are making them stateless. We cannot think of any peaceful solution with brutal Myanmar. We do not want the European Union to mislead the world about the kind of solution Rohingyas need.
