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Bornomala Desk (27 September 2017 09):\u00a0The United Nations refugee chief said on Wednesday the \u201cbig question\u201d regarding the up to 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh was whether they would be allowed to return to their homeland.<\/p>\n
Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said he hoped to discuss the statelessness of Rohingya with Myanmar officials in Geneva next week but recognized it was a \u201cvery complex issue\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very clear that the cause of this crisis is in Myanmar, but that the solution of this crisis also lies in Myanmar,\u201d Grandi told a news conference in Geneva on his return from Bangladesh, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n
He called on the Myanmar authorities to end the violence in northern Rakhine state so that solutions to the situation could then be discussed.<\/p>\n
Some 480,000 Rohingya have fled northern Rakhine since Aug. 25 and accused the army of a campaign of violence that the U.N. has called \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d, following attacks by Rohingya insurgents on police posts. About 300,000 Rohingya had previously crossed into neighboring Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
A Myanmar minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday that the Yangon government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during the violence in Rakhine state.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince it is most likely that return will take time, if it happens, if violence stops, it will be important also to find in the medium term suitable solutions for the people that are in Bangladesh,\u201d Grandi said.<\/p>\n
He called for the Myanmar government to implement the recommendations of a commission led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. \u201cThe lack of citizenship for the Rohingya, this needs to be addressed and resolved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly if only the people with papers can go back, that will be a very small number if at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think that the exercise should go beyond that and should really determine, if that\u2019s what is needed, who is a national, and those people should be allowed to go back and be given that citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandi condemned violence by Rohingya insurgents, warning:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was also very obvious to me when I visited northern Rakhine that it is only a matter of time before terrorists would spring up from the situation of discrimination, of poverty, that prevailed in that area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the situation is not resolved, the risk of the spread of terrorist violence in the whole region – and this is a particularly fragile region – is very, very high.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bornomala Desk (27 September 2017 09):\u00a0The United Nations refugee chief said on Wednesday the \u201cbig question\u201d regarding the up to 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh was whether they would be allowed to return to their homeland. Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said he hoped to discuss the statelessness of Rohingya with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n