Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday said the government has been monitoring the use of Myanmar mobile network in Rohingya refugee camps, and had formed a committee to discourage it.
He was speaking to the media after attending the sixth meeting of the national committee on coordination, management and law and order of forcefully displaced Myanmar citizens at the Secretariat.
The minister said, “The committee will soon find a solution and make arrangements so that Rohingyas can use the Bangladeshi network. We have discussed in detail about the arrangement to let Rohingya refugees enter our network.
“The Bangladesh Army has almost completed building a security fence, patrol road, and watch tower around the refugee camp. Ninety-five to 99 percent of the work is already complete.”
He continued, “According to the recent report, 65 per cent of Rohingya population has been brought under birth control campaign. The government is giving its all-out effort for Rohingya repatriation and hopefully a solution will be reached soon.”
When asked how many Rohingyas the US wants to take from Bangladesh, the minister said they are taking the Rohingyas by providing visas themselves.
The minister added, “Three years ago the United Nations representative for the Netherlands had shown interest in taking Rohingyas to me, but I later learned that the country only took seven of them and Australia took 24.
“The number is quite poor and I do not want to bring people’s attention to that.”
However, the US informed Bangladesh in detail about how many Rohingyas they want to take and how.
