"The
charities have been providing aid to tens of thousands of undocumented Rohingya
refugees illegally. We asked them to stop all their projects in Cox's Bazar
following directive from the NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations Affairs
Bureau,” local administrator Joynul Bari said.
Bari
added that the foreign aid was encouraging "an influx of Rohingya refugees”
from Myanmar.
France’s
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Action Against Hunger (ACF), and Britain’s
Muslim Aid UK have been given orders to suspend their services in
Bangladesh.
The
charities were providing refugees in Cox’s Bazar with healthcare, emergency
food, and drinking water.
Bangladesh
has also turned away boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya Muslims.
The
move by Dhaka comes in the wake of a humanitarian crisis and increasing
concerns over state-sponsored ethnic cleansing against the minority Muslim
group in Myanmar.
Reports
say some 650 Rohingyas have been killed in the Rakhine state in the west of the
country in recent months. This is while 1,200 others are missing and 80,000
more have been displaced.
The
UN says decades of discrimination have left the Rohingyas stateless, with
Myanmar implementing restrictions on their movement and withholding land
rights, education, and public services from them. The world body has also
described the Muslim community as the Palestine of Asia and one of the most
persecuted minorities in the world.
The Buddhist-majority
government of Myanmar refuses to recognize Rohingyas, who, it claims, are not
natives, and classifies them as illegal migrants though the Rohingyas are said
to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish, Bengali, and Pathan origin, who
migrated to Myanmar as early as the eighth century.
shame,shame,where is humanity? 
