Comment: Foreign parliaments are not powerless to help the Rohingya Published on: 28 November 2017 Writing for The Conversation, Dr Wessel Vermeulen and Dr Andreja Pegan highlight the steps needed to contribute to a resolution of the Rohingya crisis. , and , As the pope visit to Myanmar in late November, attention turned to how to help the thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled their homes to Bangladesh following violence and what UN officials have described as . A deal between the two countries to start returning the refugees, has been for going against international refugee law. Western politicians have also travelled to Myanmar and Bangladesh to witness the crisis in recent months. In September, the British foreign office minister Mark Field to Rakhine state, the centre of the violence. Members of the US senate also in November. The British Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan, a doctor, then to Bangladesh to work in a refugee camp there. We believe that parliaments in foreign countries, such as those in Europe, can contribute to a resolution of the Rohingya crisis. Many parliaments have the authority and power to shape government policy. Governments such as Myanmar鈥檚 are sensitive to foreign opinions. The British and Dutch governments have, for instance, facilitated in the water management infrastructure of Myanmar 鈥� and it is not in the country鈥檚 interest to lose them. A forceful call from parliaments in Europe could strengthen the existing condemnation by European governments that violence towards the Rohingya population has consequences for Mynamar鈥檚 future relations with European countries. Read more:
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