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Rohingyas with green passports

They find no problem in managing Bangladeshi papers; 7 held at Dhaka airport

Staff Correspondent
The intrusion of Rohingyas from Myanmar and their overseas travel on fake Bangladeshi passports are big headaches for the authorities.
Once abroad, they commit different kinds of crime, thus tarnishing the image of Bangladesh. The problem has been unchallenged for long.
In June, these issues again came to the fore as several hundred Rohingyas fled sectarian violence in Myanmar and into Bangladesh through the bordering area of Cox's Bazar.
The government high-ups have also expressed their concern about the problem and asked the authorities concerned to be on a state of alert.
Yesterday, the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) at Shahjalal International Airport arrested seven Rohingyas with Bangladeshi passports, all trying to depart through the airport.
One of them managed a Machine-Readable Passport (MRP), while others got forged ones -- passport books recently stolen from a Dhaka passport office, police say. Last month, the toreign ministry asked the deputy commissioners, especially of Cox's Bazar and Bandarban, to take steps to ensure that no Rohingya got a Bangladeshi passport.
"Earlier, many Rohingyas had managed voter IDs and Bangladeshi passports. They went abroad and created huge problems in Saudi Arabia. So we have asked the local administration for a double-check,” Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes told journalists on July 11.
But the dubious attempts continue.
The authorities and this correspondent found such incidents at Shahjalal International Airport recendy.
One of the seven arrested yesterday, Ayesha Begum, 30, managed an MRP issued on June 27.
Police arrested her at the airport along with her two daughters Ruksana Khatun, 10, and Irmana Khatun, 8.
A 16-year-old youth named Zaber also was sneaking into the airport posing as Ayesha's son. They were arrested around 7:30am soon after entering the departure lounge.
Their wanted to fly to Saudi Arabia via Kuwait on a Kuwait Airways flight, APBn Assistant Commissioner Monirul Islam told The Daily Star.
In a separate drive, the APBn arrested three other Rohingyas — Md Bashar, 18, Md Selim, 18 and Azizul Haq, 19 -- with three Bangladeshi nationals.
The Rohingyas came from Ukhia of Cox's Bazar and were supposed to board a Cambodia-bound flight. It could not be known if they were registered refugees.
Police said the Rohingyas along with two Bangladeshis — Md Sujan Mia, 19 and Md Alamgir Hossain, 35 and their broker Md Kaiser, 20 — arrived at the airport on a microbus around 12:30am.
On suspicion, the APBn
searched them and found the fake passports.
The Rohingyas told police that Kaiser had managed the passports by using fake names, photos and addresses. The broker and his associates took Tk 2 lakh to Tk 3 lakh from each of them for sending them abroad.
The broker had asked them to come to the airport at 1:00am with the passports. He instructed them to tell the names and addresses put on the passports if security personnel interrogated them.
Sujan and Alamgir were supposed to fly to Kuwait.
Separate cases were filed against them with the Airport Police Station.
On September 11 last year, police at the airport arrested six Rohingyas along with a Bangladeshi trying to board a flight to Saudi Arabia. The group was carrying forged Bangladeshi passports.
Detectives on August 2 this year raided a residential hotel at Fakirapool in the capital and arrested nine Rohingyas for their illegal stay and efforts to manage Bangladeshi passports for flying to the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested around 700 Rohingyas, who already made their way to the country with Bangladeshi documents, and kept them in a deportation centre in Jeddah, according to officials.
The Saudis are now pressing Bangladesh to take them back.
This trend of Rohingyas going abroad is also threatening the country's labour market overseas.
There are around 30,000 registered Rohingya refugees at two camps in Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.
But roughly about half a million Rohingyas unofficially live in Cox's Bazar and other areas of the Chittagong region.