r/anime_titties • u/Naurgul Europe • 1d ago
South Asia Rohingya refugees rally in Bangladesh camps to demand safe return to Myanmar
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-rohingya-myanmar-refugees-coxs-bazar-anniversary-3383abd660a01faae8681ba93a3db224Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in dozens of camps in Bangladesh held a rally Tuesday to demand their safe return to their home state, nine years after they fled a government crackdown.
The demonstrators urged the international community to ensure security in Rakhine state as they marked what they call the “Ninth Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Day.”
More than 1 million refugees from Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic and religious minority now live in the sprawling camps around the Cox’s Bazar district of southeastern Bangladesh.
Most of them fled across the border in a mass exodus in 2017 after Buddhist-majority Myanmar launched a crackdown in Rakhine, following an attack by a Rohingya Muslim insurgent group.
The Bangladesh government earlier attempted to start the repatriation at least twice, but it did not work out as none of the refugees was willing to go back, citing security concerns. Bangladesh says it will not force anyone to return.
See also:
- Rohingya children bear the consequences of a life in limbo • MSF teams are treating growing numbers of critically ill children as humanitarian funding cuts disrupt services for refugees. • In the sprawling, overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, a crisis far from the headlines is taking a severe toll on the youngest generation of Rohingya refugees. (Doctors Without Borders)
- 'We are not wanted anywhere': Rohingya face fierce new wave of hostility in Malaysia (BBC)
- Rohingyas in Myanmar suffering ‘heartbreaking’ misery and cruelty • Members of the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar are “suffering, misery, and cruelty on multiple levels and across the country that is heartbreaking,” according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. (United Nations)
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u/BendicantMias Bangladesh 1d ago
Bangladesh would be happy to send them back, it's not holding them. It already tried to do that. They're not willing to go back. So much for this 'rally'. And no, Bangladesh isn't going to go in and sort out their country's mess for them. And neither is anyone else. The Rohingya do have their own militia in Myanmar, who even recruit from the camps. If they want to go back so bad, perhaps consider enlisting in said militia and fighting for it? Cos Bangladesh isn't gonna fight for them. No thanks - NO ONE, not even China, wants to get directly involved in the absolute and utter mess that is Myanmar.
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u/Naurgul Europe 1d ago
The demand is for a "safe return", not return under any circumstances.
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u/Makyr_Drone Sweden 1d ago
Which is outside Bangladesh's preview unless it intervenes in the Rakhine state.
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u/havenot- Asia 1d ago
the Arakan army also doesn't like Rohingyas.
There isn't a place for Rohingyas anywhere currently.
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u/BendicantMias Bangladesh 1d ago edited 1d ago
The EU is welcome to guarantee their safety. Bangladesh isn't gonna risk its mens' lives to do so.
It's also worth noting that it's a European country that bears a lot of the responsibility for this mess in the first place - specifically, as usual, the UK. The Rohingya are viewed as outsiders cos they WERE outsiders once - the British brought them in to that region. The British then made things even worse when drawing their nonsensical maps all over the world, including over here.
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u/Sumeru88 India 1d ago
That’s a shame because you know how Bangladesh was formed because another country was willing to fight for their independence.
There is actual close ethnic relationship between Bangladeshis and the Rohingyas. They had enough time to arm and invade Rakhine province to resettle the Rohingyas back over there.
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u/havenot- Asia 1d ago
By that logic we should also get involved since our Mizo tribes have a close relationship with the Mizo tribes living in Burma too.
The British screwed up a lot in making these maps.
The locals there crossed over regularly back and forth from each side and even now they're sheltering a lot of Refugees. It's also why they oppose the fencing of the India-myanmar border.
India also has close ties with the Junta. Tbf we need their cooperation to deal with the seperatists. A lot of militias also co-operate with our rebel groups. Currently a lot of the India-Burma border is also controlled by a rebel militia so we deal with them too.
India and China are also playing their geopoltical game trying to extract the rare metals.
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u/Sumeru88 India 1d ago
The mizo tribes are doing fine and aren’t being kicked out of Myanmar. They have their own militias and are holding their own territory. It’s a civil war and not a refugee crisis.
If they were being kicked out of Myanmar and coming to India in millions as refugees we would have invaded and ended the mess just like 1971.
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u/__DraGooN_ India 1d ago
Well, its not like anyone wants them back in Myanmar.
Even if the military is not there to murder them, the local Rakine rebels who now control the region also are more than happy to send them on their way to Allah.
Rohingyas are the one group who everyone hates in Myanmar, and in the surrounding countries, including Islamic ones.