Around one million Rohingya refugees have created a pressure on the economy and overall security of Bangladesh, according to an editorial of the International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh's (ICCB) latest news bulletin released yesterday.

The ICCB said this influx of Rohingya refugees has also had an adverse impact on the environment and climate of Bangladesh.

Around 6,000 acres of land has already been deforested by the Rohingya camps and the estimated value of the land is Tk 741.31 crore ($86.67 million), said the ICCB.

Bangladesh deserves all the support and solidarity from the international community to face the crisis, it said.

The global trade body's Bangladesh chapter also criticised Myanmar for not taking back its nationals as per an agreement signed with Bangladesh in January.

“Not a single Rohingya refugee has returned under the formal framework agreed with Bangladesh. Moreover, many of those who have returned home have been detained,” said the ICCB.

Between January and April this year, 58 Rohingya refugees who returned were arrested and convicted on unspecified charges.

They then received a Presidential pardon, but have simply been transferred from Buthidaung prison, a northern Rakhine province, to a so-called “reception centre”. So, more Rohingyas continue to seek shelter in Bangladesh, said the ICCB.

The chamber also pointed out the recent visits of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim who found the violence on Rohingyas as one of the most “tragic stories”.

While Myanmar faced widespread international condemnation for the military's ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas, concrete action was less forthcoming.

In September the UN Security Council held its first open discussion of the situation in Myanmar in eight years. But a draft Security Council resolution was blocked by a veto threat from China, said the ICCB.

Though Bangladesh has been receiving sympathies for hosting the Rohingyas from different quarters, including the United States, European Union and United Nations, unfortunately no tangible progress in the repatriation of these distressed Rohingyas has been noticed so far.

“It is, therefore, imperative on the part of world leaders to put their foot down and force Myanmar in rehabilitating Rohingyas without any loss of time and provide them full citizenship and grant them civil liberties,” said the ICCB.