Bangladesh’s Yunus vows to continue supporting Rohingya refugees
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP
Bangladesh will maintain support for its immense Rohingya refugee population, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address.
Yunus, 84, returned from Europe this month after a student-led revolution to take up the monumental task of steering democratic reforms in a country riven by institutional decay.
His predecessor Sheikh Hasina, 76, had suddenly fled the country days earlier by helicopter after 15 years of iron-fisted rule.
Setting out his priorities in front of diplomats and UN representatives, Yunus vowed continuity on one of the biggest policy challenges of his caretaker administration.
“Our government will continue to support the million-plus Rohingya people sheltered in Bangladesh,” Yunus said.
“We need the sustained efforts of the international community for Rohingya humanitarian operations and their eventual repatriation to their homeland, Myanmar, with safety, dignity and full rights,” he added.
Bangladesh is home to around one million Rohingya refugees.
Most of them fled neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 after a military crackdown now the subject of a genocide investigation by a United Nations court.
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