Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh Essay

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Bangladesh, after 1992, did not give any refugee status even the Government decided to pushback boatloads of Rohingyas on the ground that they are making threats to the security of the country as well as the country cannot afford to take more refugees having over population in the limited territory. Bangladesh Government has no plan to provide citizenship or ID card to Rohingya people. Rohingya case is different from Bihari case in a sense that Rohingyas are Myanmar national and they believe that their home is Arakan. Biharis are Urdu speaking people, living in the Geneva camp , have citizenship according to the citizenship law of Bangladesh. The problem will not be solved by providing them ID card, because they have no citizenship in Bangladesh. If Bangladesh Government provides them citizenship, all of them will try to enter Bangladesh. In that case, Bangladesh will suffer various problems, because Bangladesh is a small country and there is a large number of populations already existing here. So the only solution may be if the Myanmar Government provides them citizenship.
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The Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Control of Entry Act, 1952 have no specific reference to the Rohingya refugees. According to section 3 of the Foreigners Act, 1946 any person entering Bangladesh illegally shall be arrested. When an undocumented refugee is arrested and detained in prison, he has no way to become released because he is neither a citizen of Bangladesh nor a citizen of Myanmar. When a foreign prisoner is released he is sent to that country to which he belongs. In case of Rohingya refugee he cannot be sent to Myanmar, because he has no citizenship in Myanmar. Now only he can stay in prison as a released

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