CPA calls for urgent action to end Rohingya crisis

The 63rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) today called for urgent action from the international community to resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis facing the Rohingya community.

In a statement adopted by consensus by the 63rd General Assembly of the CPA held in Dhaka said the CPA affirms the collective will of the membership of the commonwealth Parliamentary Association to call for urgent action from the international community to resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis facing the Rohingyas ethnic minority.

Welcoming the comprehensive briefing provided to Commonwealth Parliamentarians attending the 63rd commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Dhaka on November 5, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali as set out in the background mote to this statement.

According the statement, all commonwealth parliaments and parliamentarians called on to condemn the atrocities, oppression, ethnic cleansing, displacement and all gross violation of human rights including loss innocent lives in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.

The CPA urged the Myanmar government to stop the violence and practice of ethnic cleansing in the Rakhine state immediately, unconditionally, and indefinitely and to ensure the sustainable return of all forcibly displaced Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh and other countries to their land homes in Myanmar within shortest possible time and to implement the recommendations of the advisory commission on Rakhine state immediately, unconditionally and completely.

The CPA member states also called upon the Myanmar authorities to take urgent measures to ensure the sustainable return of forcibly displaced Rohingyas and internally and externally displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in the Rakhine state in safety, security, dignity and with guaranteed livelihood, reports BSS.

The Parliamentarians participated in the conference highly appreciated the efforts of the Bangladesh government, particularly the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her decision to open the borders of Bangladesh to the forcibly displaced Rohingya people from Myanmar and to help close to end million distressed Rohongyaas with shelter, food, sanitation, water and medical attention.

All commonwealth member states have been invited to help in security basic rights for the Rohingyas, extend humanitarian support to the Rohingyas and join the efforts of the Bangladesh and international community towards a sustainable return of Rohingyaas to their homeland in the Rakhaine State of Myanmar.