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Bangladesh urges world leaders to take Rohingya crisis seriously
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a solemn plea to world leaders gathered in Paris on Thursday to “act seriously” to facilitate the safe repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.
“The world must act seriously to make sure that these people (Rohingya) can go back to Myanmar soon,” Hasina stated Thursday afternoon during the fourth edition of the Paris Peace Forum.
Her speech at the forum, which was also attended by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and other world leaders, was streamed live by private media outlets.
The Bangladeshi leader is currently in France on a five-day state visit.
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“Security risks from the crisis will not just remain confined to our borders,” she warned, referring to the delay in the peaceful and dignified repatriation of persecuted Rohingya Muslims to their country as a crisis for the entire region. “We already see signs of that,” state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news agency reported.
Over a million stateless Rohingya have been living in the squalid makeshift tents in the country’s southern Cox’s Bazar district for years.
According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar military forces launched a brutal crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017, pushing the number of persecuted people in Bangladesh above 1.2 million.
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