Editorial, ?The Independent” from Bangladesh. 9 July 2004. "The unexpected influx of about a quarter million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar?s Arakan region in the early 1990s posed overwhelming problems for Bangladesh. The government had very little resources and expertise to play host to such a huge number of impoverished farm people terroristed by Myanmar?s dreaded security forces...Speaking at seminar in Dhaka on Tuesday, the law minister Barrister Moudus Ahmad said in handling the refugee issue Bangladesh had to abide by the internationals laws and conventions and all repatriation had to be voluntary. All but 20,000 refugees had already been repatriated under the supervision of the UNHCR..."