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ROHINGYA

Govt blamed for not helping UN protect refugee rights

Staff Correspondent
UNHCR Representative to Bangladesh Christopher Beng Cha Lee yesterday criticised the government for not signing the 1951 UN Convention on the status of refugees to protect basic human rights of the refugees in the country.
"The government does not allow us to make arrangements for minimum standard houses for Rohingya refugees, education of their children, plantation in their camps and teaching them Bangla language that they speak," he said at a workshop on 'Refugees' Rights and Role of Medial' in the city.
"Politicians don't have time to listen to us, it is a shame for the country," he said at the workshop organised by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).
Bangladesh government should understand the UNHCR is also working to change the situation in Myanmar and that Rohingyas will not be here permanently. So it should not take the issue politically, Lee insisted.
Advocate Naim Ahmed of the Supreme Court said though Bangladesh did not sign the UN Convention on refugees, it could not
stop Rohingya migration to it. "Unidentified Rohingyas coming in large number to the country are likely to cause more social or economic problems, by spreading out across the country," he said.
If Dhaka signs the convention, there will be a legal framework to identify if they are 'economic migrants, criminals or refugees'. The international community will also come forward to help solve the problems, he pointed out.
Bangladesh might face pressure from stronger neighbours in the absence of any legal framework on refugee issues, he thought.
Dr CR Abrar, executive director of Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit, regretted that the civil society in the country is indifferent to protection of refugees' rights.
He recalled that during the Liberation War, a large number of Bangladeshis took shelter in a neighbouring country.
He called upon journalists to write reports on refugee issues on humanitarian and legal grounds.
UNHCR National Protection officer Uttam Kumar Das also spoke at the workshop attended by 12 journalists from newspapers and
the electronic media.
There are now about 20,500 Rohingya refugees at two camps in Cox's Bazar and many more unregistered ones are spread across the southeast border districts of the country.