Resolutions of DHAKA SEMINAR-2006

Resolutions of DHAKA SEMINAR-2006
On Selected Human Rights Issue
held on 12 Sept.2006 at National Press Club, Dhaka

Resolutions unanimously adopted at the Closing Session of the DHAKA SEMINAR-2006 are as follows:

1. This Seminar believes that Human Security and National Security are not conflicting with each other. Therefore, it is the moral and constitutional obligations of the Government to take necessary measure and ensure prevalence of a congenial atmosphere in the country to protect the refugees and minorities, from all forms and manifestations of discrimination or deprivation in the name of national security or in any other pretext. 

2. This Seminar observes that it is the moral and constitutional obligations of the Government of Bangladesh to provide fundamental humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya Refugees who have been compelled to take temporary shelter in Bangladesh due to ruthless repression and ethnic cleansing in Arakan by the ruling military junta of Myanmar.

3. This seminar further believes that such essential humanitarian assistance may be extended to the Rohingya refugees without instigating any provocation to the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Union of Myanmar.

4. This seminar unequivocally expresses its complete concurrence to the recommendations contained in the report of the Washington-based Refugees International published on 21 July 2006.

5. This seminar believes that the undesirable, distorted, baseless and fabricated propaganda orchestrated at home and abroad regarding so-called emergence of militancy in Bangladesh, is indirectly instigating the proliferation of militancy itself. This seminar opines that instead of attributing militancy to the dissident individuals or communities, sincere and holistic endeavor in combating militancy will solve the problem once and for all.

6. This seminar demands more effective and coordinated endeavor of the concerned Government agencies in combating militancy. Concurrently, it further emphasizes that the concerned agencies should be extra vigilant during anti-militancy operations so that ordinary and innocent people are not harassed under any circumstance.