Rakhine engagement must be based on facts
published : 15 May 2021 at 04:00
7 A Bangladeshi man helps Rohingya Muslim refugees to disembark from a boat on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf River in Teknaf in 2017. (AFP photo)
The Asean special summit on Myanmar s crisis in Jakarta on April 24 led to a five-point consensus that has received considerable international attention. But another important paragraph in the summit statement has largely been overlooked.
It deals with the situation in Myanmar s Rakhine state, and with the return of the Rohingya refugees who were forced to flee to Bangladesh when Myanmar s military conducted brutally violent campaigns against the civilian population in 2016 and 2017.
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