Myanmar unwilling to takes refugees back – PM Hasina

10 June 2019
Myanmar unwilling to takes refugees back – PM Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Photo: EPA

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Myanmar is unwilling to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a persecution in the Buddhist-majority country in 2017, The Daily Sabah reported.

"The main problem is Myanmar doesn't want to take their people back home," Hasina told a news conference in Dhaka after her recent official trips to Japan, Saudi Arabia and Finland.

Hasina said she has been mobilizing support for the dignified return of the persecuted Rohingya Muslims.