Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said the government has secured its border along with Myanmar to prevent any fresh influx of Rohingyas following military coup in the neighboring country.
He, however, said they are not suspecting any further Rohingya influx due to the changed situation in Myanmar.
“We have secured our border,” Dr Momen said, replying to a question.
The foreign minister said Dhaka wants to continue talking with Myanmar for advancing the ongoing process of commencing Rohingya repatriation.
On January 19 last, the secretary level tripartite meeting among Bangladesh, China and Myanmar decided to hold the next joint working group meeting on February 4 for advancing the discussion about commencing repatriation of Rohingyas.
But the meeting is uncertain after the military coup.
Bangladesh is hosting over 1.1 million forcefully displaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar district and most of them arrived there since August 25, 2017 after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” by other rights groups.
In the last three years, Myanmar did not take back a single Rohingya while the attempts of repatriation failed twice due to trust deficit among the Rohingyas about their safety and security in the Rakhine state.
Bangladesh handed over biometric data of 8,30,000 Rohingyas while the Myanmar authority so far verified only 42,000 displaced people out of the list.
