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Rohingyas, militancy, and a nation in peril: How Muhammad Yunus is destabilizing Bangladesh and the region

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15.07.2025

During 2025 Eid Ul Fitr, while visiting Rohingya camps in Bangladesh being accompanied by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Muhammad Yunus said – Rohingyas may celebrate next Eid in Myanmar. At that time, there were over 1.2 million Rohingyas in Bangladesh, who were driven-out from their homeland and been living in temporary camps since 2017. Media wing of Yunus made fullest attempts of generating massive media buzz with the above statement of Yunus – giving an impression as if Muhammad Yunus is taking some measures which will resolve the Rohingya crisis, which has been a great burden for Bangladesh.

Prior to this pronouncement, Muhammad Yunus brought an alleged American citizen named Khalilur Rahman alias Roger Rahman having no mentionable diplomatic credentials and a murky background and placed him as the “High-Representative” on Rohingya issues and gave an impression to the nation that this Roger Rahman hold the magic wand of solving Rohingya crisis and succeed in sending them back to Myanmar “soon”. Band of Goebbels of Yunus mobilized highest energy and resources in portraying Roger as the savior of Rohingyas.

But within weeks of this controversial appointment, Khalilur told media, “the repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh is unlikely to proceed unless the ongoing conflicts in Myanmar’s Rakhine (Arakan) state are resolved”. At that time, no one anticipated the hidden blueprint behind Khalilur’s sudden emergence in the show.

Then came an even more troubling appointment: when Yunus named Roger Rahman as Bangladesh’s National Security Advisor. Soon the mystery behind this suspicious appointment was exposed when Yunus and Khalilur jointly expressed willingness of granting military corridor to Arakan State under the guise of “humanitarian corridor”, where United Nations was made the key handler. Analysts

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