Myanmar promise once again to take back Rohingya !

Myanmar once again agreed on Tuesday to take back the forcibly displaced Rohingya people to Rakhine from camps in Bangladesh by reemphasising that the prospective returnees should abide by the laws of the country and avoid engaging in ‘destabilising activities’ after their return.

China, on the other hand, proposed that the process of repatriation should be kept limited to a bilateral mechanism developed by Bangladesh and Myanmar, while Bangladesh sought engagements of international partners in Rakhine to make the repatriation sustainable.

The three sides expressed their intent in a trilateral meeting with the participation of top diplomats of Bangladesh, China and Myanmar held virtually when Bangladesh sought to start repatriation of the Rohingya people physically by June this year depending.

Two attempts to start repatriation failed in 2018 as not a single Rohingya expressed willingness to go back to Myanmar citing the absence of an environment conducive to voluntary repatriation and the lack of security in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Chinese vice-foreign minister Luo Zhaohui chaired the meeting with the participation of Bangladesh foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen and Myanmar deputy minister for international cooperation Hau Do Suan from their respective capital Beijing, Dhaka and Naypyitaw.