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IANS
Santiniketan (West Bengal)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday sought cooperation from the international community to mount pressure on the Myanmar government to take back close to 1.1 million Rohingya refugees sheltered in her country.
"I want everybody's cooperation, so that there is pressure on Myanmar government to take them back fast,"Hasina said after inaugurating the Bangladesh Bhawan here in West Bengal's Birbhum district.
Hasina said her government decided to give shelter to the Rohingyas on humanitarian grounds as they were persecuted back home.
"Eleven lakh Rohingyas have taken shelter on Bangladeshi soil... We have given them shelter on humanitarian grounds. But we want them to return to their country soon,"she said.
The Bangladesh Prime Minister recalled her sister Rehana's appeal to her to give shelter to the Rohingyas."My sister Rehana told me, when you provide meals to 16 crore people (of Bangladesh), can't you provide meal to seven lakh more?"We can. If need be, we will share our food with them,"Hasina said.
