M Humayun Kabir: Singapore foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan will arrive in Dhaka on September 3 on a three-day official visit to see the condition of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, Rohingyas, staying in makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Vivian Balakrishnan will make visit to the makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar on September 4, reports New Age.
Officials said he would hold official bilateral talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart AH Mahmood Ali on September 4.
On September 5, Vivian would also travel to Myanmar.
The visit is significant as it will take place at the interest of Singapore after a visit of Myanmar state counsellor Aung Sun Suu Kyi to the country in the past week, they said.
Myanmar has also been engaged with China and Japan to defuse international pressure amid allegations of applying mass killing and gang rapes as weapons of ethnic cleansing of minority Muslim Rohingyas with genocidal intent.
UN investigators said on Monday that Myanmar commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing and five other top generals of the force should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law, according to Reuters.
The civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi has also ‘contributed to the commission of atrocity crimes’ with allowing hate speech to thrive, destroyed documents and failed to protect minorities from crimes against humanity and war crimes by the army in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states, they said in a report.
About 7,20,000 Rohingyas, mostly women, children and aged people, entered Bangladesh till August 24, 2018 fleeing unbridled murder, arson and rape during ‘security operations’ by Myanmar military in Rakhine, what the United Nations denounced as ethnic cleansing and genocide, beginning from August 25, 2017.
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