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We cannot take in any more Rohingya

PM tells Al Jazeera about 3 lakh refugees already living in camps

Star Report
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh could not afford to allow in any more Rohingyas fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.
She said her country was
already overpopulated. There were already around 300,000 Rohingyas living in refugee camps there. Besides, it was not her country's responsibility to help all the refugees.
Hasina made the comments FROM PAGE 1
in an interview with Al Jazeera English, a Qatar-based news channel, on Friday.
After sectarian clashes erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine state in June, thousands of Rohingyas, an Islamic minority group in Myanmar, tried to flee across the border. But Bangladesh turned them away, citing its inability to take in any more refugees.
Hasina said the Rohingya issue was entirely of Myanmar's own making, so the international community and the media should pul pressure on the Myanmar government, not on Bangladesh.
She also said things were now improving and no refugees were coming in.
About Al Jazeera's observation that Bangladeshi guards forced people to return to danger, she said the guards treated the refugeseekers well. They gave them food, medicine and money before sending them back to their land.
Replying to another query, she said her government had expressed its concern to the Myanmar government about how the Rohingyas were treated in Rakhine state. In reply, Myanmar said it was creating a congenial atmosphere, she added.
When Al Jazeera asked if she believed Myanmar's statement, Hasina said, “Yes, why not?"
SUNDAY EXPRESS
INTERVIEW
In an interview with the Sunday Express yesterday, Hasina warned of possible terrorist connections among the thousands of Muslim refugees trying to enter her country from Myanmar.
She said her government had passed on concerns about a number of unidentified "incidents” to the authorities in Myanmar where there
have been clashes between Buddhists and Muslims.
The refusal of her government to accept any more Rohingyas has angered campaign groups Human RightsWatch and Amnesty.
The prime minister told the Sunday Express that the international community should investigate why so many were fleeing.
She said she was concerned about the activities of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic political party that has a powerbase near the border with Myanmar and which has previously been accused of terror links, allegations it denies.
She alleged: "Jamaat-e-Islami is very much involved in terrorist activity, there's no doubt about it and everybody knows that.
"As for refugees, we have a large number trying to get into our country, which is already over-populated.
"I low many can we take in? We don't want any refugees coming to Bangladesh. The international community should try and find out why these refugees want to come."
Asked if she was concerned that Jamaal might be encouraging some refugees, the prime minister said: "We have some intelligence reports about it.
"My government has talked to our ambassador in Myanmar and they have informed them about some incidents and our intelligence people and law enforcement agencies are enquiring about it.
"We are trying to find out the reality.”
Earlier yesterday, she met Foreign Secretary William I lague at her hotel suite.
In the meeting, the Rohingya crisis was raised alongside other issues, including trade, migration cooperation and climate change.