Narinjara news
Slow repatriation of
Burmese refugees makes Bangladeshi authority impatient
Teknaf, October 6: Our correspondent from Teknaf, the south eastern border town of Bangladesh said
that, a total of ten families, 26 female and 25 male members, from Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships
across the border were repatriated on Wednesday, October 2, to the Maungdaw Repatriation Camp on the Burmese side across the Naaf River that serve as the border between the two
countries.
The Burmese authorities now accept one or two families of Rohingya refugees
every Wednesday, while the process being very slow
Bangladeshi State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Ebadur Rahman Chowdhury
has sought cooperation of the international community for the repatriation of
the Rohingya refugees to their homeland in
The State Minister called for the cooperation while addressing the 53rd
Executive Committee meeting of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) in
He requested the international community to undertake effective steps for
returning of the 22,000 refugees from
In the meeting, Ebadur Rahman
stressed on immediate solution of the Rohingya problem in order to assist the
ongoing development activities of
Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi business community has shown more interest in
business opportunities with Burma since daily necessities including medicine,
fertilizer, cooking oil and fuel oil from Bangladesh are the hot items in the
list of articles being smuggled into Burma, speakers in the inauguration
ceremony of Bangladesh Burma Friendship Society said in a recent get-together
in the capital city of Dhaka. #