Rohingyas demand a favorable environment for their repatriation

Rohingya refugees on Tuesday urged the visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to actively engage with the United Nations to create an enabling environment in Myanmar for the sustainable return of the persecuted minority in his country of origin.

Michelle Bachelet’s visit is the first by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Bangladesh as well as to the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar region.

Entourée d’une sécurité renforcée, elle a passé plusieurs heures dans les camps encombrés et a visité les bureaux de diverses agences d’aide et organizations non gouvernementales (ONG) afin de faire le point sur les services les camps From the world.

She also exchanged with a group of Rohingya representatives and interviewed genocide survivors about their needs and demands.

“We have asked him to engage the United Nations, the most powerful organization in the world, to create a peaceful environment in Myanmar, so that we can return to our homeland in safety and with the rights of citizenship,” said Maulana Azimullah, a Rohingya. Anadolu Agency leader.

The slowness of the United Nations in resolving the crisis

Maulana Azimullah said Bachelet assured them of the positive role of the United Nations in the peaceful and sustainable repatriation of the Rohingya, adding that “until the return becomes peaceful, she urged us to be patient and to remain peacefully in the camps in Bangladesh.”

In an interview with Anadolu Agency, the leader of the Rohingya youth, Khin Maung, said that they are not satisfied with the slowness of the United Nations in resolving the Rohingya crisis.

“We see that the UN is only focusing on gathering information, releasing data and providing simple assurances. I would never believe that such a powerful platform for world leaders needs so much time to create an enabling environment in Myanmar for the sustainable return of stateless Rohingyas,” Maung said.

Referring to the recent killings of two Rohingya leaders in the camps, he called on the international community and the host country, Bangladesh, to take appropriate measures to enhance security measures in the camps.

Bangladesh currently hosts more than 1.2 million Rohingya, most of whom fled a brutal military crackdown in their native Rakhine State in Myanmar in August 2017.