National committee formed to coordinate ‘Rohingya’ activities

This photograph taken on October 7, 2020, shows members of Rapid Action Battalion walking past fishing boats while on patrol along a beach in Shamlapur area, one of the common routes used for smuggling Rohingya refugees. — AFP photo

The government had formed a national committee to coordinate and manage overall activities including law and order of the forcibly displaced Myanmar-nationals in the camp areas of Bangladesh.

The cabinet division had formed a 17-member committee for coordinating, managing and maintaining law and order of Rohingyas by publishing a gazette where the home minister had been made its convener.

Foreign minister, state minister for disaster management and relief, and state minister for women and children affairs had been included in the committee.

The committee members also included cabinet secretary, principal secretary to the prime minister, principal staff officer of the armed forces, secretary of the public security division, foreign affairs secretary and secretaries of security service division and disaster management and relief.

Inspector general of police, director general of NGO Affairs Bureau, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, Director General of national Security Intelligence, Divisional commissioner ofChattogram and Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner were also the members of the committee.

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