Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar U Kyaw Tin is set to arrive in Dhaka on Sunday, amid increasing international criticism over the Rohingya crisis.
Quoting a senior bureaucrat of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Asia Monitor reported that U Kyaw Tin will hold a meeting with Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Monday.
In a statement last week, Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Win Myat Aye hinted that a senior government official from the country will visit Bangladesh soon to discuss the Rohingya issue.
However, according to South Asia Monitor, U Kyaw Tin has no plans to visit refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
A Myanmar government official, on condition of anonymity, said Kyaw Tin will hold a meeting with the Bangladeshi foreign minister and leave Dhaka on Monday, reported the Bangla Tribune.
A group of so called militants attacked security forces in northern Rakhine state on August 25, leaving 12 policemen dead. The Myanmar army responded to the attack by launching a brutal military campaign against the Rohingya community.
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More than 500,000 Rohingya people fled to Bangladesh. The refugees narrated horrific tales of mass murder, arson, beheadings, rapes and torture perpetrated by the Myanmar army.
Earlier, a BBC report published on Thursday confirmed that the Myanmar authorities have postponed a scheduled UN visit to northern Rakhine to assess the situation there.
The UN had earlier termed the ongoing situation as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
UN Secretary General António Guterres has urged Myanmar authorities to immediately end military operations against the Rohingya, calling the crisis “the world’s fastest developing refugee emergency and a humanitarian and human rights nightmare.”This article was first published on Bangla Tribune