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UN call for safe return of Rohingya impractical: Pundit

An activist is of the opinion that the United Nations’ demand for safe return of Rohingya Muslims is not realistic.

Jahangir Mohammed, director of the Center for Muslim Affairs, told Press TV on Wednesday that the United Nations’ expectation from the Myanmar government to pave the way for the safe return of Rohingya Muslims to their homeland is not realistic.

“The Myanmar state and the rulers are the ones who are responsible for the plight of Rohingya Muslims .... and therefore, to expect them to create the conditions for the safe return of Rohingya Muslims is quite impractical really and unrealistic.”

The international body is expecting the perpetrators of genocide to create normality for safe return of the Muslim minority to Myanmar, Mohammed noted.

The commentator also criticized the United Nations for “allowing the perpetrators to escape” without any sanctions or courts.

The UN says nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Rakhine State since August 2017.

In this file photo taken on October 16, 2017 Rohingya refugees walk through a shallow canal after crossing the Naf River as they flee violence in Myanmar to reach Bangladesh in Palongkhali near Ukhia on October 16, 2017. (Photo by AFP)