Myanmar hasn’t kept its end of the bargain regarding the Rohingya issue, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.
“We didn’t invite the Rohingyas here. The Myanmar government drove them out,” he told the media on Tuesday (Jun 25).
He added that Myanmar has done nothing effective to take back the Rohingyas despite saying that they will. “Their actions don’t match their words.”
The minister said that they have allowed the Rohingyas to remain in Bangladesh on humanitarian grounds despite the fact that they were having a negative effect on the homesteads, crops and law and order.
Responding to queries on narcotics and drug peddlers, he said, “The law enforcers don’t murder anyone. The list of drug traders comes from different levels.”
He added that a lot of Rohingyas carry yaba from Myanmar and untoward incidents take place when Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) challenges them.
Kamal said that there are 82,000 prisoners in the prisons in the country against the capacity of 40,000 and most of them are drug peddlers.
He added that Bangladesh-India border safety has been increased and phensedyl consignments coming into the country has gone down 50 percent.