Govt fails to end Rohingya crisis, says BNP

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday protested and expressed concern over mobilising army by Myanmar in its territory near Bangladesh-Myanmar border recently.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, addressing a press conference at the party chairperson’s office at capital’s Gulshan, also suggested the government to take inter-regional diplomatic initiatives to resist such activities of the Myanmar army.

BNP arranged the press conference in the backdrop of recent media reports of army mobilisation by Myanmar authorities near bordering areas.

Terming the Myanmar army mobilisation unsolicited and motivated, Fakhrul said that Myanmar dared to show the audacity taking the total opportunity of the government’s ‘submissive’ and ‘weak’ foreign policy for which the government had also failed to take any effective step to resolve Rohingya crisis.

He alleged that the Awami League government that came to power through a farcical election had no credibility both in the country and abroad.

Moreover, the government had failed to raise the Rohingya issue in the international forum, he alleged.

He also urged the government to take simultaneous initiatives bilaterally, regionally and internationally to resolve the crisis. Referring to a newspaper report that the government was going to transfer the Rohingyas to Bhasanchar permanently and a city would be established there, he questioned whether the Rohingyas would live in Bangladesh permanently.

‘We feel that the crisis is an international conspiracy and government should want immediate intervention of the UN to resolve the crisis. Otherwise, it would bring a serious consequence for Bangladesh,’ he said.

He called on the government to proceed ahead to resolve the crisis keeping the agreements signed during regime of Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia on Rohingya crisis.      

The government generally claimed that India and China are their friend countries but they did not come forward to resolve the crisis so far, Fakhrul said. These two countries rather played negative roles over resolving the crisis, Fakhrul said.

He alleged that the government had failed to oppose the roles of the countries and even failed to protest the role of Indian Boarder Security Forces that frequently killed Bangladeshis.

Awami League has now became a politically failed party and the government became a bankrupt one, he alleged and added that AL wanted to remain in power by any means, even selling the severity of the country.

Fakhrul called on the government to restore democratic rule in the country, holding a free and fair election to allow people to exercise their voting rights.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net