OP-ED: A question of returning home

Recounting the mass exodus of the Bangali population, 50 years ago
International refugee law defines refugees, subject to minor variations across different illegal instruments, as persons who have been forced to flee the country of their origin and are unable or unwilling to return due to the fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, ethnicity, political beliefs, etc.

Bangladesh is a refugee-receiving country, and it has been protecting more than 700,000 from the persecuted Rohingya community, who have been fleeing from Myanmar to this territory since 2017. Bangladesh has always been considerate towards refugees as it too has an emotional attachment to a similar kind of situation.

It has been 50 years since that incident, and Bangladesh still recalls the horrific stories of crimes against humanity against the Bangali population by the Pakistan regime.