New Delhi | February 11, 2019
The world must give it to Prime Minister Begum Hasina that thus far she has been no less accommodating than Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, vis-a-vis the migrants from North Africa and the Arab countries.
Rescued Rohingya refugees pose for photographs at the Border Guard Bangladesh camp in Teknaf on February 8, 2019. - Bangladeshi border guards have rescued 30 Rohingya refugees from a coastal town who were waiting to board on boats which would "take them to Malaysia", an official said on February 8. (Photo by STR / AFP)
Unlike the contentious US-Mexican frontier, the “wall” has come up almost readily on the Bangladesh-Rakhine border to ward off the further influx of the persecuted Rohingyas from Myanmar. This doubtless exacerbates the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II with its attendant ethnic cleansing of the “nowhere men”. It is beyond question too that the responsibility rests almost entirely with the government in Naypidaw which has consistently stopped short of putting rehabilitation measures in place for the refugees, should they come in, if at all. As it turns out, they have nowhere to turn except Bangladesh.
