- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
MYANMAR is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return, the country’s National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said last Saturday (2). He was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security conference in Singapore, where he was asked if the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where most Rohingya live, could trigger use of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) framework of the United Nations. The so-called R2P initiative was adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit, in which nations agreed to protect their own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic…
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