Bangladeshi Authorities Must Protest Rohingya Refugees

Shipan Kumer Basu, who heads the World Hindu Struggle Committee, stated in an exclusive interview: “At the end of August 2017, more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state took refuge in various places in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh, which is surrounded by beaches. Later, in the interest of the country’s security, hundreds of camps were set up there and they were kept within the camp-based boundaries.”

According to Basu, Mohib Ullah met with former US President Donald Trump that same year as the representative of the Rohingya, but he was recently killed, an act that was condemned by the UN High Commission for Refugees and various countries across the globe.

“Domestic and foreign militant groups are gradually spreading in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar,” he noted. “With their help, several illegal weapons training centers have been set up.  Towards the end of September 2021, a confidential report from a reliable source revealed that a number of militant groups were operating in Rohingya refugee camps. Under the guise of these organizations, they are carrying out various activities including drug trafficking, the trafficking of women and children; the illegal weapons trade and illegal sexual activity.”

However, Basu noted that the Sheikh Hasina government has refrained from arresting anyone inside the Rohingya refugee camps for performing any of these illegal activities: “For the past few years, people from the general and minority communities of the country have been the victims of unknown attacks. But the government has not been able to clarify what happened during these attacks and who stood behind them.  If the situation continues like this, there will be no minorities left in Bangladesh and the general public will be held hostage, like in Afghanistan. Thus, Bangladesh will transform into a sanctuary for militants.”