Chinese Envoy Offered Rohingya Money to Return to Myanmar: Sources

RFA
2019-03-05

Muhib Ullah, chairman of the advocacy group Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), talks to BenarNews in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, after attending a meeting with a Chinese delegation, March 5, 2019. BenarNews

A Chinese government delegation met Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh, promising each refugee up to U.S. $6,000 if they returned to Rakhine state in Myanmar, a Bangladeshi official and refugee leaders said Tuesday.

BGB returns trespassing Myanmar soldier

bdnews24.com
Bandarban Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 03 Mar 2019

The Border Guards Bangladesh has sent back a Myanmar soldier who was arrested over trespassing on the border with Lemuchhari in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari.

The army soldier was returned to the BGP, the border security force in Myanmar, following a flag meeting at Ghundhum border at around 11:00 am on Sunday, said Lt Col Asaduzzaman, chief of BGB-11 battalion.

Bangladesh hands over ‘detained’ Myanmar army man

The Daily Star
March 03, 2019

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over a member of Myanmar Army to Myanmar today, 39 days after he was “detained” along the border in Bandarban on January 24, an official of the Bangladeshi paramilitary force has said.
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Aung Bo Thin was handed over to the Myanmar Army on Bangladesh-Myanmar Friendship Bridge at Ghumdum point along the border in Naikhangchhari upazila at 12:05pm, BGB battalion- 34 Commander Lt Col Ali Haider Azad Ahmed told a press briefing.

Bangladesh seeks continued French support for safe return of Rohingyas

UNB

Publish Date - February 28, 2019, 01:49 PM

The Senator and President Jacky Deromedi meets with the Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office on Thursday, February 28, 2019. Photo: Courtesy

Dhaka, Feb 28 (UNB) - Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday sought continued French support to create conducive environment inside the Rakhine State of Myanmar for their dignified return in safety and security.

“France-South East Asia,” the Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group, headed by the Senator and President Jacky Deromedi, met the Foreign Minister at his office and discussed the issue.

A question arises

DhakaTribune
Mahmudur Rahman , Published at 12:03 am February 28th, 2019

Some of the geopolitical challenges at hand 

President Donald Trump has put the cat among the pigeons by insisting that the captured IS members from Syria be sent back to their respective countries -- a move that is a great embarrassment to the states concerned. After all, how does one rehabilitate individual citizens that waged war on others, even if they can be prosecuted? It’s funny in a way.

Suu Kyi: Invest in Rakhine.

THE Star ONLINE
Saturday, 23 Feb 2019

New ventures: Investors looking at the schedule of the Rakhine State Investment Fair at Ngapali beach in Thandwe, Myanmar. — Reuters

NGAPALI BEACH: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine, saying the world had “focused narrowly on negative aspects” in the state from which some 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled since 2017.

Minister: Rohingya rights must remain on agenda.

THE Star ONLINE
Thursday, 21 Feb 2019

Dhaka: The plight of the Rohingya refugees to return home must not fall off the international agenda and they must be given justice, she said, according to a press release issued yesterday by the British High Commission in Dhaka.

She said the international community must make sure that Rohingyas’ right to return remains high on the agenda.

Mordaunt, also the UK’s minister for women and equalities, arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a three-day official visit. On Monday, she met Rohingya refugees at a food distribution centre in Kutupalong camp of Cox’s Bazar.

Rohingya plight must not fall off int'l agenda

The Daily Star

February 20, 2019

Says British minister

British Minister for International Development Penny Mordaunt has stressed the need for voluntary repatriation of Rohingyas to their place of origin in Myanmar, making sure that they are protected after their return.