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Sheikh Hasina places six proposals to resolve Rohingya crisis

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Published: 07:27, 20 September 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Sheikh Hasina places six proposals to resolve Rohingya crisis

Desk Report: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has presented a six-point proposal regarding the Rohingya crisis.

Hasina made the proposal at a meeting of the OIC Contact Group at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

The proposals include demand to return the refugees to Myanmar, an end to ‘state propaganda’ that labelled the ethnic group as ‘Bengalis’,  full implementation of the recommendations made by the Kofi Annan Commission and creating a safe zone for Rohingya people.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the OIC member states to show a unity for solving the Rohingya crisis.

Mentioning that the crisis has its root in Myanmar and its solution has to be found in Myanmar, Hasina said, “We want to see an end to the ‘ethnic cleansing’. The plights of our Muslim brothers and sisters need to be stopped as well.”
 
The Prime Minister said all forms of atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims must be stopped immediately and ‘safe zone’ may be created inside Myanmar to protect the innocent civilians, especially women, children and elderly.
 
Hasina mentioned that all forcibly displaced Rohingyas must be able to return to their homeland in Myanmar in safety, security and dignity, and the recommendations of the Kofi Annan Commission will have to be implemented immediately and unconditionally in its entirety.
 
She mentioned that this has caused the largest exodus of Rohingyas of all time and over 400,000 Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh through land and river since August 25 and 60 percent of them are children. "It’s an unbearable human catastrophe. I myself have visited them and listened to the stories of their grave sufferings, particularly of women and children.”

Hasina invited the leaders of OIC member states to visit Bangladesh and hear the stories of the Rohingyas how they fled the persecution in Myanmar.
 
The Prime Minister alleged that Myanmar claims that the Rohingyas are “illegal immigrants from Bangladesh” but all the historical records suggest that the Rohingyas have been living in Rakhine State for centuries.



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