Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her call to Myanmar to take back home more than one million Rohingyas from their temporary shelter in Bangladesh, reports UNB.
"The Rhohingyas are the nationals of Myanmar and they have to be taken back," she told the visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet who called on her at her official residence Ganobhaban in the capital.
Prime Minister's press secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the media after the meeting.
He quoted the Prime Minister as telling the UN rights chief that Myanmar neither refuses that Rohingyas are not their nationals, nor is taking them back to their homeland.
In response, Michelle Bachelet proposed to increase opportunities for education and work for the Rohingya nationals sheltered in Bangladesh.
In reply, Sheikh Hasina said such initiatives will not be possible in Coxs’ Bazar.
She, however, informed the High Commissioner that such steps can be taken at Bhashanchar where more than 20,000 Rohingyas have been shifted already to provide them with better basic facilities.
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