B Chy, Dr Kamal plan committee to muster global support

Former president Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday announced plans to form a “national committee” to pursue the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar.

They invited all to join the committee in a bid to stop “the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya minority” in Rakhine State.

The two politicians also called upon the government to formulate a national strategy on how to deal with the Rohingya crisis after holding talks with experts and politicians.

They also urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to send special envoys to India, China and Russia within a day or two to convince them to pressurise Myanmar to take back Rohingyas.

They were addressing a rally titled, “National unity to resolve national crisis”, at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the capital.

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Kader Siddique and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal Secretary Khalequzzaman spoke among others.

Kader Siddique urged the government to send Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and Dr Kamal Hossain abroad as the PM's special envoys.

Badruddoza, also Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president, said they will visit Chinese, Russian and Indian missions in Dhaka.

They will also send eminent personalities to India, China and Russia, he added.

The national committee will rally in five major cities with the last one in Cox's Bazar to let Myanmar know that Bangladeshis are with Rohingyas.

Dr Kamal Hossain mentioned former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi's role on how she gained world's support through sending her special envoys to those countries during Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971.