Bangladesh not to accept single more Rohingya: Momen

[Black_cats]

Bangladesh not to accept single more Rohingya: Momen

ROHINGYA CRISIS​

BSS
26 January, 2023, 09:00 pm
Last modified: 26 January, 2023, 09:03 pm

Photo: TBS

Photo: TBS

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today reiterated that Dhaka's decision is not to accept a single more Rohingya in Bangladesh's territory.

"Rohingyas must go back to their homeland in Myanmar and their repatriation remains our (Bangladesh') priority," he told reporters while responding to a question after a meeting with the deputy commissioners at the DC Conference in the capital.

Momen said he does not have with him any solution to the Rohingyas crisis as not a single Rohingya has been taken back by Myanmar over the last five and a half years.

"Myanmar said they will take back their people but they have lack of sincerity," he told reporters.

Since August 25 in 2017, Bangladesh has been hosting over 1.2 million forcefully displaced Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar district and most of them arrived there after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and other rights groups dubbed as "genocide".

Momen said he gave instructions to the DCs on various issues, including taking measures to prevent illegal migration, hill-cutting and private land grabbing.

The foreign minister said he asked the DC's to discourage illegal migration and take actions against the responsible agents which would be found involved in the human trafficking racket in their respective districts.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen were also present at the meeting with DCs.

Bangladesh not to accept single more Rohingya: Momen

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today reiterated that Dhaka's decision is not to accept a single more Rohingya in Bangladesh's territory.

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[Catalystic]

I just wish all these countries could teach myanmar a lesson for genocide?? Where’s all those human rights champions??

No care because rohingya are muslims. Ukrainians easily taken in by west

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@Black_cats

Kalo beral bhai,

You should learn from our brethren from west of Wagah. They may not be doing as well economically as you guys but they will never turn their backs on a fellow Muslim brother who is oppressed.

Regards

 

[Black_cats]

@Black_cats

Kalo beral bhai,

You should learn from our brethren from west of Wagah. They may not be doing as well economically as you guys but they will never turn their backs on a fellow Muslim brother who is oppressed.

Regards

Here the issue is Rohingya has no citizenship or stateless. Myanmar wants exactly the same thing that Bangladesh accept the Rohingyas more and more escaping Myanmar due to persecution which Myanmar will never accept.

Not accepting is the ultimate solution which will create more pressure on the Bamar generals.

 

[UKBengali]

I just wish all these countries could teach myanmar a lesson for genocide?? Where’s all those human rights champions??

No care because rohingya are muslims. Ukrainians easily taken in by west

To be honest BD has brought this on itself.

It has an economy SEVEN-EIGHT times that of Myanmar and a weaker military.

Mynmar knows there are no consequences to pushing Rohingya into BD.

 

[Azadkashmir]

again i say OIC is a useless chai drinking organization.

 

[UKBengali]

Myanmar's economy is dead and by 2027 BD's will be around 10 times as large in nominal terms.

Report for Selected Countries and Subjects

www.imf.org

 

[Shorisrip]

To be honest BD has brought this on itself.

It has an economy SEVEN-EIGHT times that of Myanmar and a weaker military.

Mynmar knows there are no consequences to pushing Rohingya into BD.

Agreed, but to be fair to the BD government, in Myanmar military-backed conglomerates like the MEHL and MECL generate billions of dollars in revenue, so their military budget is considerably higher than what's reported (which already makes up a lion's share of the national budget). Military-wise we're only behind in terms of fighter jets and ballistic missile capability but it definitely is a policy failure of the government to fail to provide a strong deterrent to prevent them from pushing these refugees across the border.

 

[UKBengali]

Agreed, but to be fair to the BD government, in Myanmar military-backed conglomerates like the MEHL and MECL generate billions of dollars in revenue, so their military budget is considerably higher than what's reported (which already makes up a lion's share of the national budget). Military-wise we're only behind in terms of fighter jets and ballistic missile capability but it definitely is a policy failure of the government to fail to provide a strong deterrent to prevent them from pushing these refugees across the border.

In one sense it does not matter as their total defence budget comes from their tiny gdp in the end - their economy is dead and so profits from their enterprises will not rise much in the future.

As for the MN, do not be sure that BN will be able to stay ahead as Myanmar is currently building their first frigate with VLS system. Once this frigate comes into operation then BN cannot be thought to be much better than MN.

BN has not in 2023 even selected a partner for the next-gen frigate programme when it was originally announced back in 2017 and the first two frigates were to come into service in 2022.

I can forsee by 2025, only BA having the upper hand over the Myanmar military and that is a very bad place to be with a dysfunctional military regime.

 

[fallstuff]

And then Myanmar pushes another 2000, to which Alga Momen draws another red line to say this is it, not a single more !

 

[leonblack08]

In one sense it does not matter as their total defence budget comes from their tiny gdp in the end - their economy is dead and so profits from their enterprises will not rise much in the future.

As for the MN, do not be sure that BN will be able to stay ahead as Myanmar is currently building their first frigate with VLS system. Once this frigate comes into operation then BN cannot be thought to be much better than MN.

BN has not in 2023 even selected a partner for the next-gen frigate programme when it was originally announced back in 2017 and the first two frigates were to come into service in 2022.

I can forsee by 2025, only BA having the upper hand over the Myanmar military and that is a very bad place to be with a dysfunctional military regime.

You guys are forgetting to take into account Myanmar military earning billions through drug trade as well. Doesn't matter what their economy size is, they will always be able to outspend Bangladesh on military because of their underground economy.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

This person has no ball. When the real push will come and international community exert pressure on Bangladesh to accept, he will easily bend over, accept a few lakhs and then will say, not a single more.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@UKBengali

It has an economy SEVEN-EIGHT times that of Myanmar and a weaker military.

That is the whole point. BD has such a strong economy, because it spends little on its army.

Regards

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

Without military muscle a countrys concerns has no value internationally. So, if we want to be taken seriously we have to hike our defense budget to 3% of GDP and keep sustaining it.

 

[UKBengali]

That is the whole point. BD has such a strong economy, because it spends little on its army.

Regards

Partly true.

BD spends around 1.5% of GDP on defence but this could be increased a little to say 2% of GDP without harming the overall economy.

The other thing is that especially the BAF has been wasting hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 15 years buying F-7s and dozens of trainers.

Careful allocation of scarce funds would have meant that BAF could have kept up with MAF.

BD just has to suck it up as MAF can bomb BD economic and military targets and there is little that BD can do - it has not even built a relatively cheap MRSAM network to cover the strategic targets like ports, major cities and other infrastructure like major bridges and power stations.