UNB :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the international community to think about a solution of the Rohingya crisis so the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals could return to their homeland and live a decent life “The whole world should about finding a solution to the crisis enabling the return of the Myanmar nationals to their homeland to have a decent life,” she said.
The prime minister said this while a British cross party parliamentary delegation led by Virendra Sharma called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban. Other members of the delegation are: Paul Scully, Neil Coyle and Andrew Western.
PM’s speech writer M Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after the call on.
Hasina also mentioned that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas are becoming heavy burden for a small country like Bangladesh.
The PM the government had no other option but to provide shelter to the helpless Rohingyas when they arrived in Bangladesh six years ago.
“We have given them shelter on humanitarian ground,” she said. In this connection, she mentioned that at that time there were some 40,000 pregnant women among the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.
She said that at the beginning the government and the people of the country provided them food and shelter.
“After that six years have passed. But Myanmar has made no tangible and practical steps to take back their nationals although they have agreed to do so,” she said.
She mentioned that as a result these Myanmar nationals are leading a inhumane lives here in various camps.
“Various types of crimes are committing there, bloodsheds are going on among various groups as they are engaged in various types of conflicts,” she said.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the independent members of the parliament (MPs) to work for welfare of the country and its people and making parliament effective.
“Make the parliament effective. You can criticize the government. We don’t have any objection, but you have to keep in mind that you would have to work for welfare of the country and its people,” she told a meeting with the independent lawmakers at her official Ganabhaban residence here this evening.
Sixty two independent MPs, out of 300, were elected in the 12th parliamentary election held on January 7, 2024.
The 12th parliament is set to go into its maiden session on Tuesday next (January 30).
