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Updated: 03 Mar 2019 01:07 AM BdST
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opened Bangladesh’s borders for Rohingya refugees driven from their homes in Myanmar as a humanitarian gesture, despite pleas from the country’s security forces against it, Gowher Rizvi, her international affairs adviser, has told Al Jazeera.
He made the remarks during an episode of Al Jazeera’s “Head to Head”, which was released on its website and social media accounts on Friday.
Commenting on Bangladesh’s decision to open its doors to thousands of Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Rizvi said: “I was present in the meeting that day; all the security forces argued that we should hold them (Rohingya refugees) back but our prime minister said: ‘no, this is a humanitarian crisis, open the frontiers.’”
Updated: 03 Mar 2019 01:07 AM BdST
He made the remarks during an episode of Al Jazeera’s “Head to Head”, which was released on its website and social media accounts on Friday.
Commenting on Bangladesh’s decision to open its doors to thousands of Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Rizvi said: “I was present in the meeting that day; all the security forces argued that we should hold them (Rohingya refugees) back but our prime minister said: ‘no, this is a humanitarian crisis, open the frontiers.’”