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Southeast Asia
Myanmar must take back their nationals, says Sushma
2017-10-23
[Dhaka Tribune] Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said Myanmar must take back their nationals from Bangladesh and there should be a permanent solution to the crisis.

Sushma Swaraj said this referring to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh when she met Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
 at the latter’s official residence Gonobhobon, reports UNB.

PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed news hounds after the meeting.

"Myanmar must take back their nationals ... this is a big burden for Bangladesh. How long will Bangladesh bear it? There should be a permanent solution to this crisis," Sushma was quoted as saying.

Ihsanul Karim said the Indian foreign minister called on the international community to contribute to social and economic development of Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

About terrorist acts in Rakhine, Sushma said turbans can be punished. "Why innocent people?"

Sushma appreciated Bangladesh’s stance for adopting a humanitarian attitude towards the forcibly displaced people of Myanmar.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the Indian minister that Bangladesh had given shelter to the Rohingya on humanitarian ground.

Posted by:Fred

#7  Swamp Paleos
Posted by: Frank G   2017-10-23 22:31  

#6  Eurabians?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-10-23 16:46  

#5  Who are the Rohinga?

Palestinians. Kosovars. And, I wonder what Muslims in EUrope are going to call themselves in a few years.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-23 12:52  

#4  Who are the Rohinga? Al Jazerra's view.

According to al Jazerra:

The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation has said, "Rohingyas have been living in Arakan from time immemorial," referring to the area now known as Rakhine.

But then it says:

During the more than 100 years of British rule (1824-1948), there was a significant amount of migration of labourers to what is now known as Myanmar from today's India and Bangladesh. Because the British administered Myanmar as a province of India, such migration was considered internal, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The migration of labourers was viewed negatively by the majority of the native population.

After independence, the government viewed the migration that took place during British rule as "illegal, and it is on this basis that they refuse citizenship to the majority of Rohingya," HRW said in a 2000 report.

This has led many Buddhists to consider the Rohingya to be Bengali, rejecting the term Rohingya as a recent invention, created for political reasons.

So maybe India and Bangladesh are the "permanent solution". I would say Pakistan as well but that really would be cruel.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-10-23 11:26  

#3  Just because they invaded enough to get an ID doesn't make them a national.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-10-23 08:29  

#2   there should be a permanent solution to the crisis

There is but I doubt that abolishing Islam is in the cards.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-10-23 08:21  

#1  This is what I need and want, but reality is like a fart in Church.
Posted by: newc   2017-10-23 01:57  

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