Close
MyNorthwest
News
Opinion
Sports
Tools
Connect

Bangladesh PM tells UN that Myanmar must take Rohingya back

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks to the media after her visit to Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar district, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. “The U.N. is doing the best we can to support them. We’ll continue doing that,” she said. “But we also need to deal with the profound roots of the problem. We need to deal with that and ensure that they can go back to Myanmar -– when there are conditions for safety and voluntary return.” (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu) U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks to the media after her visit to Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar district, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. “The U.N. is doing the best we can to support them. We’ll continue doing that,” she said. “But we also need to deal with the profound roots of the problem. We need to deal with that and ensure that they can go back to Myanmar -– when there are conditions for safety and voluntary return.” (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu) FILE- Rohingya refugees shout slogans during a protest against the repatriation process at Unchiprang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, Nov. 15, 2018. Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, told a visiting U.N. official that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees must go back to their ancestral home in Myanmar from crowded camps in neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File) FILE - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina greets the gathering during an interaction with journalists after official election results gave her a third straight term, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 31, 2018. Hasina on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, told a visiting U.N. official that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees must go back to their ancestral home in Myanmar from crowded camps in neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
Bangladesh PM tells UN that Myanmar must take Rohingya back