The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said that the interim government had continued efforts to send back Rohingya people to their homeland Myanmar without any progress, with the number of the displaced people sheltered in Bangladesh camps now standing at 1.3 million.
鈥楤ilateral efforts are underway to send back displaced Rohingya people to their homeland Myanmar,鈥� foreign ministry spokesperson Mohammad Rafiqul Alam told the weekly media briefing at the ministry in the capital Dhaka.
Asked whether there was any progress in the repatriation move, he said that they were working on the repatriation plan although there was no visible progress till date.
The interim government led by Muhammad Yunus took office after the ouster of Awami League regime on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising.
Rafiqul, also director general of the public diplomacy wing, said that the number of Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh camps now rose to 1.3 million with average new-births of 30,000 every year after the 2017 exodus of Rohingya people amid a military crackdown on the persecuted community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.
Out of the total number of Rohingya people sheltered in Bangladesh camps, 10,05,520 are registered, he added.
Bangladesh could not send back even a single Rohingya person to Myanmar in the past seven years since the beginning of their latest influx, raising economic burden on itself and security concerns.
A bilateral move backed by China to send back 1,174 Rohingyas under a pilot project also did not see any light, further increasing uncertainties over the beginning of the process of repatriation for the forcibly displaced community to their country.
Myanmar鈥檚 military regime and international communities, including the United Nations Refugee Agency, have generally been blamed for the failure to send back Rohingya people to Myanmar since the large-scale exodus that began in August 2017.
