The Bangladesh government has done the right thing.
As Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of the country’s Rohingya minority rages on without any intervention in sight, it is heartening to see steps being taken to give shelter to the ones who have managed to cross over to our side of the border.
With the Rohingya pushed more and more into our borders, our government appears to have instructed border officials to ease up on the Rohingya and allow some of them into Bangladesh.
What is more, the Border Guard Bangladesh has, reportedly, been helping out those fleeing violence set up shelters for others.
We cannot even imagine the relief that those few must be feeling right now.
These disenfranchised people have finally been given a glimmer of hope.
To that end, we applaud Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose government made this possible, and we hope Bangladesh will continue offering its help.
As the world stands still and watches the Myanmar government lay waste to the Rohingya population, there is a certain hope in knowing that Bangladesh has stepped up in whatever way it can.
In fact, it is a positive sign that now the government of Indonesia has offered to help us deal with the Rohingya crisis. A wonderful gesture of goodwill, if anything, and we hope other countries will follow suit.
However, Myanmar still has a lot to answer for, and the world should never let the Myanmar government off the hook for committing such terrible crimes against its own people.
This article first appeared on Dhaka Tribune
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