The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have condemned the military coup in Myanmar. But they said they do not “feel sorry” for the de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi who was removed from power through a military coup.
According to Al Jazeera, the Rohingya community leader, Mohammad Yunus Arman, said the Myanmar military had killed their families in Rakhine State while Aung San Suu Kyi was in power.
“She remained silent about it. She didn’t even utter the word ‘Rohingya’. Once we used to pray for her success and used to treat her like our queen. But after 2017, we realised her real character,” Arman said.
On Monday, Myanmar’s powerful military staged a coup that and overthrew the democratically elected government of Suu Kyi. She was detained along with other political leaders. Taking over the power, the army declared a state of emergency for one year in the Buddhist-majority South Asian nation.
“We don’t feel sorry that she [Suu Kyi] is overthrown from power now,” said Arman.
Southern Bangladesh is home to more than one million mostly Muslim Rohingya, living in cramped, makeshift camps. It is the world's largest refugee settlement.
Myanmar has expressed its commitment to the repatriation of the Rohingya on a bilateral agreement, Bangladesh is expecting the commencement of the process later this year.
Last month, Dhaka commenced the relocation of some refugees to Bhasan Char, an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal. At present, about 7,000 Rohingya have been relocated to the flood-prone island.
Arman said, “For the past four years, we have been talking about our safe return to our homeland in Myanmar, but no progress has been made on that front.”
Another community leader at Thaingkhali camp, Sayed Ullah, told newsmen that they are not concerned about the military coup in their homeland.
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He said, “We have long been living under the military regime. The civilian government of Suu Kyi did nothing for us. They didn’t protest the genocide which on our community.”
However, Ullah expressed fear that a military takeover means “a more uncertain repatriation process”.
“Now that the military is in power, we feel our repatriation process is further stalled. There is no way the army would let us get back to our homeland,” Ullah said.
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