Myanmar erecting fence as per law: Dipu Moni

Myanmar authorities continue erecting concrete pillars for barbed wire fence along Myanmar border at Naikkhangchhari in Bandarban. Star File PhotoStar Online Report

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today said Myanmar is erecting barbed wire fence along Bangladesh border in Bandarban conforming with the international law.

She was addressing a press conference at her office this afternoon.

Dipu Moni said she did not know about the Rohingyas that Myanmar authorities gathered on borders to push in Bangladesh.

The foreign minister's comments came after media news that Myanmar authorities have been erecting concrete pillars for barbed wire fence along Myanmar border at Naikkhangchhari in Bandarban and also mobilising a huge number of Myanmarese troops along the border.

Nasaka, the Myanmarese border guards, has also gathered about 10,000 Rohingyas near its border with Bangladesh in a bid to push them into the Bangladesh territory as part of their latest provocative move, sources at the intelligence agencies said last night.

They have been kept at several bordering points opposite Naikhongchhari in Bandarban over the past few days, they said.

In this situation, Bangladesh is also making all-out preparations to thwart any incursion attempt by them, highly placed sources in the government said yesterday.

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