Why the Bangladeshi Government Has Denied Entry to the Rohingya Refugees?

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The world is a cruel and unjust place, where children die of hunger and thirst, where families wait in each other’s arm hoping for a morsel of bread to eat. Refugees are everywhere, and every time disaster strikes there are more people without homes, without food, without the basic necessities of life. As human beings we are perhaps bounded by our conscience to help those in need, and the severity of the lives that these refugees lead beckons to our heart ever more. But, the general populace is not really there at the place of the calamities. We are only able to form decisions based on the information we receive, and modern media is our lone source of information. However, the government has their own sources, and it is their duty to use logic rather than emotions to guide policies, and thus national security and welfare comes first for an ideal government. Both of these stances, by the government and the media, often coinciding or contradicting, sets a tone for any issue of a national or international scale. The most recent issue that has taken the headlines of Bangladeshi newspaper by storm is the denial of Rohingya refugees trying to cross the border into Bangladesh, fleeing from persecution in their homeland. Religious-ethnic tension has existed for centuries in Myanmar, between the majority Rakhine Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslims. But the tension erupted into a full scale disaster in a matter of weeks, and now thousands of refugees pour into the Bangladeshi border only to be stopped by the border patrol of Bangladesh. The purpose of this research is to analyze the reason behind this denial, the reason why Bangladeshi government has stopped the Rohingya refugees. In order to better understand the situation surrounding the Rohingya refugees, I believe it is important to first define the key term “refugees”. In the article “Seeking the Mother of Exiles: A

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