NEW AGE
Muktadir Rashid and Mustafizur Rahman
Published: Feb 07,2024
.png)
Border Guard Bangladesh personnel detain a Myanmar national (centre), who crossed the Bangladesh-Myanmar border illegally, in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. — AFP photo
At least 158 Myanmar troops with arms and ammunition and government officials fled conflicts to bordering Bangladesh alone on Tuesday and sought shelter crossing the international border amid intense fighting between Myanmar forces and the ethnic rebel group, the Arakan Army.
A Bangladeshi farmer, Anwarul Islam, sustained injuries on his back from a bullet fired from Myanmar while working on a paddy field in the Rahmater Bill area in Ukhia, bordering Cox’s Bazar, on Tuesday morning.
He was taken to the MSF hospital in Kutupalong.
The Board Guard Bangladesh authorities disarmed the junta forces and arranged a safe stay in the boarding area, said the officials in Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar.
Earlier on Monday, BGB confirmed the arrival of 106 Myanmar’s Border Guard Police members. The latest arrivals also include members of the Myanmar army, immigration officials, police, and members of other agencies, raising the total number of escapees to 264 on Tuesday.
The BGB in Teknaf on the day pushed back 65 persecuted Rohingya people who tried to enter Bangladesh territory on a boat from Myanmar fleeing the conflict at about 2:00pm.
The BGB officials in Teknaf said that Rohingya came on a boat and was sent back from the middle of the bordering river Naf.
‘We will not allow any kind of Rohingya influx,’ BGB’s newly appointed director general, Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, told reporters while visiting Gopalganj.
He said the situation on the border was under their control and that they had sheltered 264 members of Myanmar forces until Tuesday afternoon.
Among the injured Myanmar forces, he said that four personnel were sent to Chattogram Medical College with life-threatening situations, while others were taking treatment at Cox’s Bazar General Hospital.
The BGB chief said he held a meeting with the Myanmar defence attache posted in Dhaka on Tuesday to find a way to repatriate their forces.
On Tuesday morning, the foreign ministry summoned Aung Kyaw Moe, the Myanmar ambassador to Bangladesh, over shelling from Myanmar that killed two people in the bordering district of Bandarban on Monday.
The ministry’s Myanmar wing director general, Mian Md Mainul Kabir, handed over a protest note to the Myanmar envoy at the State Guesthouse Padma over the killing of two people in shelling from a conflict zone in Rakhine and Myanmar troops fleeing to Bangladesh, said foreign ministry officials.
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud later told the press that around 30 mortar shells landed inside Bangladesh and two got killed, so Dhaka summoned the Myanmar envoy to lodge a protest against the incident.
The foreign minister said that Dhaka was in discussion with Naypyidaw to find out how they could send back their people. ‘So far, the river route is preferred.’
Senior security officials held a meeting in Dhaka on Tuesday on the deteriorating situation in Rakhine.
One of the senior officials told New Age that Dhaka insisted on the airborne repatriation of the Myanmar soldiers who sought shelter in Bangladesh in the past few days.
The official said that the Myanmar ambassador requested the ferrying of their soldiers to Maungdaw township in Rakhine on a Bangladeshi vessel, while Dhaka rejected the proposal and said it would allow Naypyidaw to repatriate their soldiers by aircraft.
Dhaka, in reply, said that as Bangladesh recognised Myanmar as a sovereign state, it was the responsibility of Naypyidaw to control the situation. Dhaka would give humanitarian assistance to Myanmar nationals if required in a life-threatening situation, the officials said.
Thailand-based news portal Irrawaddy reported on Tuesday that the Arakan Army claimed to have seized two Myanmar junta battalion headquarters in Mrauk U and Kyauktaw townships, Rakhine State.
Bandarban district deputy commissioner Shah Mujahid Uddin said they had visited the troubled area in Naikhyangchari and advised the locals to go to shelter homes set up over the situation.
Ghumdum union parishad member Shafikul Islam said they have set up a shelter home in the Uttar Ghumdum area, but most of the villagers have already gone to their relatives in safer places.
Link : Here
He was taken to the MSF hospital in Kutupalong.
The Board Guard Bangladesh authorities disarmed the junta forces and arranged a safe stay in the boarding area, said the officials in Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar.
Earlier on Monday, BGB confirmed the arrival of 106 Myanmar’s Border Guard Police members. The latest arrivals also include members of the Myanmar army, immigration officials, police, and members of other agencies, raising the total number of escapees to 264 on Tuesday.
The BGB in Teknaf on the day pushed back 65 persecuted Rohingya people who tried to enter Bangladesh territory on a boat from Myanmar fleeing the conflict at about 2:00pm.
The BGB officials in Teknaf said that Rohingya came on a boat and was sent back from the middle of the bordering river Naf.
‘We will not allow any kind of Rohingya influx,’ BGB’s newly appointed director general, Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, told reporters while visiting Gopalganj.
He said the situation on the border was under their control and that they had sheltered 264 members of Myanmar forces until Tuesday afternoon.
Among the injured Myanmar forces, he said that four personnel were sent to Chattogram Medical College with life-threatening situations, while others were taking treatment at Cox’s Bazar General Hospital.
The BGB chief said he held a meeting with the Myanmar defence attache posted in Dhaka on Tuesday to find a way to repatriate their forces.
On Tuesday morning, the foreign ministry summoned Aung Kyaw Moe, the Myanmar ambassador to Bangladesh, over shelling from Myanmar that killed two people in the bordering district of Bandarban on Monday.
The ministry’s Myanmar wing director general, Mian Md Mainul Kabir, handed over a protest note to the Myanmar envoy at the State Guesthouse Padma over the killing of two people in shelling from a conflict zone in Rakhine and Myanmar troops fleeing to Bangladesh, said foreign ministry officials.
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud later told the press that around 30 mortar shells landed inside Bangladesh and two got killed, so Dhaka summoned the Myanmar envoy to lodge a protest against the incident.
The foreign minister said that Dhaka was in discussion with Naypyidaw to find out how they could send back their people. ‘So far, the river route is preferred.’
Senior security officials held a meeting in Dhaka on Tuesday on the deteriorating situation in Rakhine.
One of the senior officials told New Age that Dhaka insisted on the airborne repatriation of the Myanmar soldiers who sought shelter in Bangladesh in the past few days.
The official said that the Myanmar ambassador requested the ferrying of their soldiers to Maungdaw township in Rakhine on a Bangladeshi vessel, while Dhaka rejected the proposal and said it would allow Naypyidaw to repatriate their soldiers by aircraft.
Dhaka, in reply, said that as Bangladesh recognised Myanmar as a sovereign state, it was the responsibility of Naypyidaw to control the situation. Dhaka would give humanitarian assistance to Myanmar nationals if required in a life-threatening situation, the officials said.
Thailand-based news portal Irrawaddy reported on Tuesday that the Arakan Army claimed to have seized two Myanmar junta battalion headquarters in Mrauk U and Kyauktaw townships, Rakhine State.
Bandarban district deputy commissioner Shah Mujahid Uddin said they had visited the troubled area in Naikhyangchari and advised the locals to go to shelter homes set up over the situation.
Ghumdum union parishad member Shafikul Islam said they have set up a shelter home in the Uttar Ghumdum area, but most of the villagers have already gone to their relatives in safer places.
Link : Here
No comments:
Post a Comment