Experts suggest multipronged approach to resolve Rohingya crisis

Security and foreign affairs experts on Sunday stressed the need for multidimensional approach, including taking steps for deployment of UN peacekeeping mission in Rakhine and holding dialogue with Myanmar under UN supervision, for resolving the protracted Rohingya crisis. 
Preparing a long-term policy on Myanmar would also help improve relations with the country, they said, adding that successive
Bangladesh governments were indifferent to improving relations with Myanmar. 
They said this at a seminar on Bangladesh-Myanmar relations organised by Centre for Security and Development Studies in Dhaka.
Prime minister’s international affairs adviser Gowher Rizvi on Sunday said bilateral negotiations with Myanmar on resolving protracted Rohingya crisis might take place under the supervision of the United Nations.
Indicating to the role of India and China, which have borders with Myanmar, Rizvi claimed that the government was engaged with both the countries and it would not be a zero-sum game. 
The United Nations should consider quick deployment of UN peacekeeping force to contain the crisis, former ambassador Humayun Kamal 
said. 
Nearly 4,36,000 minority Rohingyas, mostly women, children and aged people, fled unbridled murder, arson and rape during ‘security operations’ by Myanmar military in Rakhine to Bangladesh since August 25 to September 24.
The total number of undocumented Myanmar nationals and registered refugees in Bangladesh rose to about 8,56,000, according to UN and Bangladesh government estimates. 
The UNHCR and the IOM expressed fear that the new influx might take to 10 lakh the number of Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh by the end of the 
year.
CSDS chairman AMSA Amin said a national commission on Myanmar might be formed and military to military dialogue together with diplomatic efforts might help resolve the crisis. 
National Security Council might convene its meeting to assess the situation, he said. 
Former chairman of Bangladesh International Strategic Studies M Firdaus Mian said invisible actors were engaged in Rohingya affairs which was a multi-dimensional international issue with geopolitical, geostrategic, ethnic cleansing, genocide, migration, refugee, demographic, economic and administrative dimensions. 
Stressing the need for careful handling of Rohingya affairs, he said ‘half a million’ desperate people with no hope ‘is a potential time bomb with a tip of an iceberg’. 
Former Bangladesh ambassador in Myanmar Anup Kumar Chakma said vested quarters in Myanmar ‘are involved’ in creating Rohingya crisis with cancelling citizenship of minority people in Rakhine.
Muhammad Sakhawat Hussain stressed the need for intensive engagement with India and China which have strong relations with Myanmar to resolve the crisis. 
Several speakers said conflicting interests of India and China and other global actors were also obstructing solutions to the 
crisis. 
Mentioning about registration of the newly arrived Rohingya, several speakers said such registration should be held under UN engagements. 

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