On Wednesday, a meeting held by the parliamentary standing committee on defense ministry urged to set up barbed wire fence around 31 Rohingya Refugee camps over security concerns. The committee’s president Shubid Ali Bhuiyan presided over the meeting.
Also in the meeting Lieutenant General Mahfuzur Rahman states that, there are 400,000 Rohingya children with little to no education aged between 12 to 17.
These children with no education are in vulnerable state and can be effortlessly manipulated by drug dealers, human traffickers and child abductors. According to Lieutenant General Mahfuzur Rahman, “They will become threat not only to Bangladesh but to the entire South-East Asia.”
Given the opportunity, they will spread across the country and international terrorist organisations will try to use them to serve their interests, he added.
The proposal comes at a time when the government is planning to form a second, special police battalion of 800 members to deal with the rise in crimes by refugees in Cox’s Bazar after a recent crisis in Ukhiya.
Many other suggestions were also included from the district police to the police headquarters, including
• Setting up a temporary court either in Ukhia or Teknaf,
• Setting up three police stations and a number of police investigation centres,
• Installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at different points in the camps.
According to the district police, 76 cases were filed against Rohingyas in 2017. The number has already risen to 187 till August 25 of this year. Around 471 cases have been filed against 1,088 Rohingya since 2017.
