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No Room for More Rohingyas, Urges Burden Sharing: Foreign Advisor
Today, Dhaka firmly reiterated that it cannot accommodate any additional Rohingya refugees, urging nations and organizations advocating for further intake to take responsibility themselves.
“We have clearly informed the UNHCR that we cannot accept more Rohingyas,” Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain stated during a press briefing at the foreign ministry.
Hossain emphasized that Bangladesh has already extended significant humanitarian support, currently hosting 1.2 million Rohingyas. He noted that the UN Refugee Agency had requested Bangladesh to shelter new arrivals, but the government firmly declined.
“Those offering advice or encouraging further intake should take the Rohingyas themselves,” Hossain remarked.
He added that the government is actively working to prevent additional entries, although fully sealing the border with Myanmar poses ongoing challenges. On September 3, Hossain mentioned that around 8,000 Rohingya had recently crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
Since August 25, 2017, Bangladesh has sheltered over one million forcibly displaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar, most arriving after Myanmar’s military crackdown, which the UN described as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” while other rights groups labeled it “genocide.”
Despite Myanmar’s agreement to repatriate the refugees, no Rohingya has returned in the past seven years due to concerns over their safety in Rakhine state, with two repatriation efforts failing.
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has forecasted light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty winds at most places across the Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, and Sylhet divisions. Some areas may experience moderately heavy to very heavy rainfall, according to their latest weather bulletin released on Thursday.
Day and night temperatures are expected to remain nearly unchanged across the country.
The highest rainfall in the country over the past 24 hours was recorded in Kumarkhali, with 104mm of rain by 6 a.m. on Thursday.
The axis of the monsoon trough extends from India’s Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal to Assam, passing through Bangladesh, with one of its associated troughs stretching into the North Bay of Bengal.
The monsoon remains active over Bangladesh and moderate to strong over the North Bay region.
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has forecasted that the mild heat wave currently affecting parts of the country, including the capital, is expected to subside in most areas within the next 24 hours, starting from 9 am today.
“A mild heat wave is sweeping across the divisions of Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, and Sylhet, as well as the districts of Jashore, Chuadanga, and Kushtia. It is likely to ease in most regions,” the department reported.
In addition, BMD predicted light to moderate rainfall or thundershowers, accompanied by temporary gusty winds, across most of Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, and Sylhet divisions. Some areas are expected to experience moderate to very heavy rainfall.
Temperatures across the country may drop by 1-2 degrees Celsius during both day and night.
On Monday, Dinajpur in the Rangpur division recorded the country’s highest temperature at 38.6°C, while Bandarban in the Chattogram division saw the lowest temperature at 24.6°C early today.
Meanwhile, rainfall recorded in the past 24 hours, ending at 6 am today, reached 66 mm in Nikli of Dhaka Division.
The sunset in Dhaka is at 5:53 pm today, and sunrise is expected at 5:49 am tomorrow.
Two separate murder cases were filed today in connection with the deaths of a private service holder and a Madrasa student during the anti-discrimination student movement.
The first case was lodged by Ridwan Ahmed with Panchlaish police station, accusing former ministers Dr. Hasan Mahmud, Barrister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Naufel, and 127 others for the death of his nephew Sujan, 14. Sujan, the son of Belal Hossain from Beramara village in Noakhali’s Sadar Thana, was a student at Al Jamirul Hayat Madrasa in the city’s Chandgaon area. He was fatally shot in the Muradpur area on July 18.
The second case was filed by Jamal Uddin at Doublemooring police station, accusing 225 individuals, including Dr. Hasan Mahmud and Education Minister Barrister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Naufel, for the killing of his elder brother Alam, a private service holder, on August 5.
