Rohingyas to be introduced as “forced displaced citizens of Myanmar”

The Rohingya, an ethnic minority group fleeing violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar, will be introduced in Bangladesh as the ‘forced displaced citizens of Myanmar’.

“Foreign Ministry in a letter informed us that they (Rohingyas) would be introduced as ‘forced displaced citizens of Myanmar’ and we will use the term for them,” Disaster Management and Relief secretary Md. Shah Kamal said at a press conference held at the secretariat on Thursday.

“We are not calling them Refugees as they are asylum seekers, and we will send them back to their country through bilateral discussion,” he said.

“It has been done in the interest of the country,” he added.

Thousands of Rohingya people have been living in Bangladesh for a long time as they are being persecuted by the Myanmar government forces and Buddhists of the country.

The recent influx of Rohingya to Bangladesh triggered on August 25, 2017 as the violence erupted on the day following a self-proclaimed Rohingya armed group ARSA’s attack on the police outposts.

Over half a million of Rohingya Muslims and Hindus recenlty entered into Bangladesh to avoid what the United Nations termed as “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by Myanmar army and Buddhists.

Rohingys who came to Bangladesh claimed that the army along with the local Buddhists killed and beheaded many people including women, children and elderly ones irrespectively, raped women and burned their houses.

Bangladesh government gave them shelter on humanity ground, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said at different occasions including in her speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations.