After wrapping up a four-day visit to Japan on Friday, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Japan can help to mediate with Myanmar to return the Rohingyas to their homeland. Japan has been a supportive country since liberation war and she has high hopes in them.
In an article published by The Japan Times she quoted, “Now they [Rohingyas] are becoming a security threat to Bangladesh and to the entire region. Japan, with its benign influence in the region, could mediate and help return these Rohingyas to their homes in Myanmar.”
PM Hasina also said, the Rohingyas were allowed to take refuge on humanitarian grounds in Bangladesh due to genocidal act of Myanmar. Over the last six years, the country has been facing the dilemma of taking care of about 1.1 million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals. “Their overdue presence has seriously been affecting the lives and livelihoods of the local communities,” she added.
Japan has a good relation in the following region so the PM hopes Japan will do its best to negotiate with Myanmar.
