Published
Friday, April 22, 2016
340 Rohingya Muslims deported to Myanmar by Bangladesh this month
Myanmar-Bangladesh Border. Photo: Narinjara
Bangladesh’s border guard this month deported at least 340 Muslim Myanmar nationals – more commonly known as Rohingyas – without any resistance from Myanmar border police, RFA reported on 21 April quoting the head of the Bangladeshi border force.
The latest batch of 20 Rohingyas was turned back Wednesday with no obstruction from the BGB’s counterpart on the Myanmar side of the border after they were caught trying to cross into Bangladesh without proper papers, Lt. Col. Imran UllahSarker, chief executive of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), told RFA.
“This is very unusual that the Myanmar border police have allowed the Rohingyas in,” former Bangladeshi ambassador Ashfaqur Rahman told RFA.
