BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged the government to provide shelter to Rohingyas in Bangladesh on humanitarian grounds.
“Many Rohingya refugees have already taken shelter in the country, resulting in immense social sufferings. Even then, I’d like to urge the government to provide shelter to them as much as possible,” she said in a press statement yesterday. The former premier also made similar calls to other neighbouring countries and the Muslim world. “My humble call to all humanitarian organisations, international organisations and institutions, including

the Muslim world, the UN and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is that they must come forward to force the Myanmar government to establish peace and stop the persecution of Rohingyas there,” she said.
The former premier also asked the Myanmar government to stop the genocide immediately so that Rohingyas are no more persecuted and victimised.
Expressing grave concern and shock over the "well-planned genocide on Rohingyas", Khaleda urged global citizens to raise their voice against the genocide and to stand beside the repressed Rohingya people. “People are shocked at the heinous attacks on the minority people in Myanmar…
We have no words to express such barbaric and heinous activities,” she said. She held Aung San Suu Kyi responsible for the barbaric repression on Rohingyas and described her as the mastermind behind the genocide. “It’s a matter of great regret that no military ruler is responsible for the atrocities, but a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. We wonder how Suu Kyi feels about such massacres after being repressed herself for so long,” Khaleda said in her statement.