Under no obligation to shelter stranded Rohingya Muslim refugees: Bangladesh foreign minister
More than 1 million Rohingya refugees from predominantly Buddhist Myanmar are living in teeming camps in Muslim-majority Bangladesh
Reuters | February 27, 2021 | Updated 15:11 IST
Bangladesh is under no obligation to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister A.K. Abdul Momen. India s coast guard found the survivors and eight dead crammed on a fishing boat and were trying to arrange for Bangladesh to take them, Indian officials said on Friday.
Momen told Reuters late on Friday that Bangladesh expects India, the closest country, or Myanmar, the Rohingyas country or origin, to accept them. They are not Bangladesh nationals and in fact, they are Myanmar nationals. They were found 1,700 km (1,100 miles) away from the Bangladesh maritime territory and therefore, we have n
Bangladesh under no obligation to accept stranded Rohingya refugees-minister
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