Arakan News Agency
Chinese special envoy on Asian Affairs Sun Guoxiang arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday to oversee the Rohingya refugee issue.
The envoy, who is extensively involved in Chinese engagements on ‘Myanmar Peace Process’ is schedule to hold meetings with foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali and foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque on Rohingya issue.
The special envoy was scheduled to be here last month but the visit was deferred.
Bangladesh wants Sun Guoxiang to go to Cox’s Bazar and see the Rohingya situation there to get a better understanding, diplomatic sources said.
Bangladesh and Myanmar are in strained relations on influx of Myanmar nationals from the bordering Arakan state into Bangladesh over the years.
Out of 92,000 minority Muslims who fled indiscriminate killing, rape, arson and violence by Myanmar security forces in Arakan State, at least 69,000 entered Bangladesh since military crackdown that began October 9, 2016, according to the UN. They are now living in makeshift shelters in Cox’s Bazar.
This is in addition to more than 300,000 Rohingyas already staying in the country for years since the ethnic group was made stateless by a controversial 1982 Myanmar law stripping them of citizenship rights.
Earlier in March, Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Ma Mingqiang and other officials from the embassy visited Cox’s Bazar to see the Rohingya situation there.
Myanmar’s has a policy of exclusion of ethnic minorities, who constitute about 40 per cent of its population. Rohingyas have been subjected to persecution by the state of Myanmar in the form of shooting of unarmed civilians, torture and rape, according to the U.N.
The envoy, who is extensively involved in Chinese engagements on ‘Myanmar Peace Process’ is schedule to hold meetings with foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali and foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque on Rohingya issue.
The special envoy was scheduled to be here last month but the visit was deferred.
Bangladesh wants Sun Guoxiang to go to Cox’s Bazar and see the Rohingya situation there to get a better understanding, diplomatic sources said.
Bangladesh and Myanmar are in strained relations on influx of Myanmar nationals from the bordering Arakan state into Bangladesh over the years.
Out of 92,000 minority Muslims who fled indiscriminate killing, rape, arson and violence by Myanmar security forces in Arakan State, at least 69,000 entered Bangladesh since military crackdown that began October 9, 2016, according to the UN. They are now living in makeshift shelters in Cox’s Bazar.
This is in addition to more than 300,000 Rohingyas already staying in the country for years since the ethnic group was made stateless by a controversial 1982 Myanmar law stripping them of citizenship rights.
Earlier in March, Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Ma Mingqiang and other officials from the embassy visited Cox’s Bazar to see the Rohingya situation there.
Myanmar’s has a policy of exclusion of ethnic minorities, who constitute about 40 per cent of its population. Rohingyas have been subjected to persecution by the state of Myanmar in the form of shooting of unarmed civilians, torture and rape, according to the U.N.
