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Burma opposition party proposes Trump-style Bangladesh border wall
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which holds a majority in all regions with the exception of the Rakhine state Hluttaw, has proposed to form a wall along the Bangladesh-Burma border in an effort to stem illegal immigration, according to a report by The Irrawaddy Times.
U Zaw Zaw Myint, a USDP lawmaker representing the Buthidaung Constituency, submitted the proposal last week, and a debate on the issue was held on Monday.
He recommended that a brick wall 30-40 feet high and five to 10 feet thick be built to separate Burma from Bangladesh.
The proposal comes in the wake of Donald Trump’s campaign promise to make a wall along the US-Mexico border during the US elections.
Trump’s plan for the 2,000-mile long wall has been widely criticised as both logistically and financially unviable.
Three Arakan State legislators came out in support of the USDP lawmaker’s proposal, said the Irrawaddy quoting Parliamentarian U Hla Aung Nyunt of Minbya Township Constituency on Monday.
This handout photograph taken on December 12, 2016 and released on December 13, 2016 by the Myanmar State Counsellor Office shows an aerial view of a burned out village in Maungdaw, Myanmar’s Rakhine state near the Bangladesh border, during a Rakhine State Investigation Commission inspection.
Myanmar has called an emergency ASEAN meeting to discuss the Rohingya crisis, a diplomat said on December 12, 2016, as regional tensions deepen over a bloody military crackdown on the country’s Muslim minority. / AFP PHOTO / STATE COUNSELLOR OFFICE / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / STATE COUNSELLOR OFFICE” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Arakan State cabinet Security and Border Affairs minister Col Htein Lin suggested that the House Speaker record the proposal and explain how they are protecting the Arakan State border in Maungdaw Township. The area was the site of militant attacks on border police outposts in October.
Col Htein Lin added that border patrol routes would be linked with the main road for 200 miles, and 52 checkpoints have already been set up. Wire fencing has been completed on a stretch of around 127 miles.
“I am not objecting to the proposal because our work is in progress. So I would like to keep it as a record,” he said.
U Hla Aung Nyunt said that U Zaw Zaw Myint accepted this suggestion.
Last week, Brig-Gen Thura San Lwin told media of a controversial plan to secure the area through expansion of seven ethnic Arakanese communities in the Maungdaw border region. The expansion was proposed in an effort to increase the Buddhist population in a predominantly Muslim area.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/2...sition-party-proposes-bangladesh-border-wall/
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which holds a majority in all regions with the exception of the Rakhine state Hluttaw, has proposed to form a wall along the Bangladesh-Burma border in an effort to stem illegal immigration, according to a report by The Irrawaddy Times.
U Zaw Zaw Myint, a USDP lawmaker representing the Buthidaung Constituency, submitted the proposal last week, and a debate on the issue was held on Monday.
He recommended that a brick wall 30-40 feet high and five to 10 feet thick be built to separate Burma from Bangladesh.
The proposal comes in the wake of Donald Trump’s campaign promise to make a wall along the US-Mexico border during the US elections.
Trump’s plan for the 2,000-mile long wall has been widely criticised as both logistically and financially unviable.
Three Arakan State legislators came out in support of the USDP lawmaker’s proposal, said the Irrawaddy quoting Parliamentarian U Hla Aung Nyunt of Minbya Township Constituency on Monday.
This handout photograph taken on December 12, 2016 and released on December 13, 2016 by the Myanmar State Counsellor Office shows an aerial view of a burned out village in Maungdaw, Myanmar’s Rakhine state near the Bangladesh border, during a Rakhine State Investigation Commission inspection.
Myanmar has called an emergency ASEAN meeting to discuss the Rohingya crisis, a diplomat said on December 12, 2016, as regional tensions deepen over a bloody military crackdown on the country’s Muslim minority. / AFP PHOTO / STATE COUNSELLOR OFFICE / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / STATE COUNSELLOR OFFICE” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Arakan State cabinet Security and Border Affairs minister Col Htein Lin suggested that the House Speaker record the proposal and explain how they are protecting the Arakan State border in Maungdaw Township. The area was the site of militant attacks on border police outposts in October.
Col Htein Lin added that border patrol routes would be linked with the main road for 200 miles, and 52 checkpoints have already been set up. Wire fencing has been completed on a stretch of around 127 miles.
“I am not objecting to the proposal because our work is in progress. So I would like to keep it as a record,” he said.
U Hla Aung Nyunt said that U Zaw Zaw Myint accepted this suggestion.
Last week, Brig-Gen Thura San Lwin told media of a controversial plan to secure the area through expansion of seven ethnic Arakanese communities in the Maungdaw border region. The expansion was proposed in an effort to increase the Buddhist population in a predominantly Muslim area.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/2...sition-party-proposes-bangladesh-border-wall/
