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BANGLADESH-MYANMAR-LETTER
Myanmar sends explanation letters to all foreign missions
DHAKA, Jan 6, 2021 (BSS) – The Myanmar’s new military
administration sent letters to all foreign missions in Naypyidaw,
including Bangladesh embassy, in an efforts to justify the army’s
takeover as a constitutional responsibility in view of alleged rigging
in the country’s last general elections.
“We got the letter (as well). They gave the letter to our
Ambassador (to Myanmar),” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told
reporters after attending a function today in the capital.
He said the new Myanmar interim government conveyed that some 10.4
million fake votes were cast in the national election held in November
last year.
Myanmar military seized state power detaining the country’s
de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, toppling her government on Monday
and declared a one-year state of emergency.
Earlier, the foreign minister told BSS that the letter was sent
from the Military’s commander’s office not from Myanmar’s foreign
ministry.
Momen said Dhaka decided to “approach directly” the new Myanmar
government to resume talks over Rohingya repatriation as soon as it
set in while China previously extended a mediatory hand under a
tripartite negotiation.
Meanwhile, reports coming from other side of the border said
regional military commanders on Friday visited for the third
consecutive day the Muslim Rohingya community at their abode in
Rakhine.
The reports suggest the military commanders visibly made an effort
to dispel the Rohingyas growing anxiety afresh after the army takeover
in the country as a brutal 2017 army crackdown forced over a million
of them to flee their home.
The situation at that time forced Bangladesh to extend the forcibly
displaced people makeshift shelter at bordering Cox’s Bazar, when it
simultaneously launched a desperate campaign for their safe and
dignified return.
Bangladesh so far provided the neighbour biometric data of 8,30,000
Rohingyas while the Myanmar authority so far verified only 42,000 of
them.
Myanmar, however, is yet to take back a single Rohingya while
repatriation attempts failed twice due to trust deficit among the
Rohingyas about their safety and security in Rakhine state.
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