Former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain called upon the government to sit with Myanmar for quick solution to the Rohingya crisis.

In a joint statement issued today, the two eminent politicians asked the Myanmar government to stop the persecution of Rohingya people in Rakhine state and take action against those responsible for the torture on them and the gross human rights violation taking place in the state.

Myanmar government must take back their citizens who took refuge in Bangladesh after violence erupted in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on August 25. The repatriation should follow the recommendations made by the commission headed by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

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UNSC stepping up response

Earlier on September 22, the two senior leaders announced that they would form a national committee and send envoys to India, China and Russia to ensure a peaceful end to the Rohingya crisis.

The current situation in the Rakhine state has been termed by the UN as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

Bangladesh, one of the neighbouring countries of Myanmar, has received a total of 480,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in the Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 25, according to the Inter Sector Coordination Group, a coordinating body of the UN agencies.

The mass exodus came following a Myanmar military offensive allegedly targeting ARSA insurgents who attacked military outpost on that day.