Not a single Rohingya will be welcomed: Asaduzzaman

Mentioning that Rohingyas will not be allowed to enter Bangladesh, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday said Border Guard Bangladesh and law enforcing agencies are working to this end.

“Not a single Rohingya will be allowed to enter Bangladesh,” he said, adding that Bangladesh is a peace-loving country, mortar shelling issue will be resolved through mutual talks with Myanmar.

“We achieved our independent through war, so we are the nation of heroes,” he said after a high-level meeting at his ministry conference room because of repeated mortar shell firing on Bangladesh territory from Myanmar.

“Our Prime Minister is not in the country. We are observing a situation that Myanmar Army is engaged in war with Arakan Army, which ammunition is coming across the border to our country,” he said. “After the meeting, we have come to the conclusion that our national policy is friendship to all and malice towards none. We always discourage war,” he said.

Mentioning that on Friday a person was killed and some others were wounded when mortar shells fired on a camp from Myanmar side, Kamal said that Bangladesh strongly condemned it.