Thirty-one Rohingya refugees, who were waiting near the border at Brahmanbaria’s Kasba to enter Bangladesh from India, were taken back by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday morning.
Chief of 25th Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) Battalion Lt Col Muhammad Golam Kabir said the group of Rohingyas, comprising eight men; six women and 17 children, were taken back by India’s BSF around 7am Tuesday after spending four days at the no man's land along the border at Kasba.
“The BSF has not talked to us about the decision to take them back,” he said, reports bdnews24.com.
The Rohingyas came to the place near Kajiatoli area in Kasba Upazila on Friday evening to enter Bangladesh.
Gopinathpur Union Parishad Chairman SM Mannan claimed the BSF was trying to push the Rohingyas into Bangladesh.
The BGB intensified vigil to prevent them from entering the country.
Several flag meetings between BGB and BSF yielded no results.
The BSF set up tents for the Rohingyas on Monday and supplied them food before taking them back in phases in the morning.
The Rohingya, a minority Muslim community subjected to persecution in Myanmar, live as refugees in various parts of the world, with the largest group living in Bangladesh.
Over a million Rohingya are living in camps in the southeast district of Cox’s Bazar.