Myanmar President U Thein Sein said Myanmar remains firm on not allowing
Rohingyas to stay in the country.
Thein Sein made the statement
during his meeting with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres in
Nay Pyi Taw on July 11.
He said Rohingyas should be
handed over to the UNHCR, which needs to provide them food and shelter in
refugee camps or they will be sent to a third county if it accepts.
He added that according to
history, the British colonialists took Bengalis into Myanmar before it regained
independence in 1948 making them do farm work. At that time, some settled down
in the country because of livelihood.
According to the law, Myanmar
only accepts those whose parents have lived in the county before 1948.
The president noted that in
Rakhine state, some are descendants of Bengalis who came before 1948 and
illegal immigrants claiming to be Rohingyas.
He noted that the issue has
threatened the state stability.
Like Myanmar, the Bangladeshi
government has dismissed calls from the UNHCR to accept Rohingyas who feld to
Bangladesh when violent incidents erupted in Rakhine last month.
“It is certainly not in the best
of our interests to allow a further influx of refugees. We want to make sure
that refugees don’t enter Bangladesh in large numbers again,” Bangladesh
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told reporters in Dhaka.
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