Claiming the Rohingya crisis has apparently turned into a 'real danger' for Bangladesh, the BNP has placed a 10-point recommendation including a national unity to solve the problem.
The recommendations were placed at a roundtable conference on Rohingya issue titled ‘The Plight of Rohingya and the Role of Bangladesh’ at a Dhaka hotel on Wednesday (Aug 28).
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fkharul Islam said, "Since the beginning [of Rohingya crisis], we [BNP] have been telling that Bangladesh can't alone solve the problem and a national unity needs to form to find out a solution."
Claiming the government has no moral ground, the senior leader said they (government) should now create a world opinion on Rohingya crisis taking people of Bangladesh forward.
"A humanitarian situation has appeared among the Rohingyas. We call the international community, the UN and other international organization to play a role in solving it," he said.
BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury read out the recommendations from the keynote paper
“The government must treat it as a national crisis and convene a national dialogue for national unity to reach a national consensus,” he said.
The recommendations include brining all the friendly countries of Bangladesh, who are yet to be on Bangladesh side, on board to mount pressure on Myanmar; making the UN oversees the repatriation and the post-repatriation situation in Myanmar, assisting any possible trial proceeding against the perpetrators of Rohingya genocide and crimes against humanity, and playing a smarter and strategic role by the government in pursuing its global diplomacy through intense diplomatic interactions with the world powers.
BNP leaders and the foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka representing India, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Canada, Turkey, Japan, Norway, Australia, Pakistan and other countries joined the event.