Dhaka: Bangladesh's interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Sunday announced rapid rehabilitation of Rohingya Muslims living in South Asia. Muhammad Yunus said that this decision has been taken to save them from the increasing violence in Myanmar and its border states.

Nearly 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled across the border into Bangladesh as fighting intensifies between Myanmar's ruling military and the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic militia made up of the country's Buddhist majority.

They join more than one million Rohingya refugees already living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, most of whom fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.

Return of Rohingya refugees

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Mohammad Tauhid Hussain said that Bangladesh cannot accept any more Rohingya refugees. But Hussain talked about taking back the people living here in India and other countries. He also urged the international community to put more pressure on the Arakan Army to stop attacks on Rohingyas in Rakhine province.

Rehabilitation process of Rohingya refugees

Rohingya refugees have little hope of returning to their homeland, where they are largely denied citizenship and other basic rights. Bangladesh's interim government also held a meeting with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to speed up rehabilitation efforts. After this meeting, Yunus said that the rehabilitation process should be easy, regular and smooth.