Daily Times
The Rohingya refugees are enduring crisis after crisis, including recent incidents at sea, where several stranded refugee families were afloat in the Bay of Bengal for weeks before being rescued by Bangladeshi coastguards and then quarantined at the controversial Bashan Char island. Faced with pressure from EU countries and other international bodies to rescue the stranded, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister, AK Abdul Momen, expressed his enragement and asked EU countries to accept the refugees in their own countries “if they are so worried about their well-being.” He further said that Bangladesh was “neither obligated nor in a position to take any more Rohingya.”
Perspectives
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The Rohingya refugees are enduring crisis after crisis, including recent incidents at sea, where several stranded refugee families were afloat in the Bay of Bengal for weeks before being rescued by Bangladeshi coastguards and then quarantined at the controversial Bashan Char island. Faced with pressure from EU countries and other international bodies to rescue the stranded, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister, AK Abdul Momen, expressed his enragement and asked EU countries to accept the refugees in their own countries “if they are so worried about their well-being.” He further said that Bangladesh was “neither obligated nor in a position to take any more Rohingya.”
