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ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF ROHINGYA REFUGEES: REPATRIATION ISSUES
ABSTRACT
Fleeing away from Myanmar, more than a million Rohingya Refugees reside in the
temporary shelters in Bangladesh, the most densely populated country of the Earth.
It did not happen all of a sudden. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Refugees
first were forces to leave Myanmar in 1978. In fact this has started to make an
international humanitarian disaster since 1966, just after one year of Indo-Pak war of
1965. Initially Rohingya Refugees were denied their citizenship and then their
religious, ethnic, civil, political and economic rights in their home land. Bangladesh
was either busy with its own predicaments or just could not appreciate the gravity
of the challenges faced by Rohingyas, who territorially the only foreign Muslim
ethnicity adjacent to its territories. Rohingya people were made Refugees intentionally
and systematically. Bangladesh has also become paranoid by the challenges of
Rohingya Refugees, who were utterly ignored by all international communities,
institutions and agencies for long time. Apparently sudden demise of the Cold War
caught the world in surprise and political, economic and military balance maintained
by the two super-powers had been destroyed completely. Bangladesh has
ignored those international phenomena by taking them as a distant story to be dealt
with full seriousness. Diplomacy with Myanmar alone did not bring any positive
results for Rohingya Refugees, who are now at the mercy and good will of the
people and government of Bangladesh. Omen of international communities are
either too late or too little for Rohingya Refugees, who might have to stay in Bangladesh
for an indefinite period of time as stateless people. Among all the challenges of
addressing the Rohingya refugee issues, repatriation – related challenges are the
most difficult and almost insurmountable because of dishonest, insincere and utter
disregard to the protection of Rohingya Muslims.
