In a phone call this week, Bangladesh’s foreign minister trusted his Chinese counterpart that justice will be done in this month’s previous murder of a Chinese citizen running on a bridge structure project, he told Friday.
Police said the fatal stabbing took place as an attempted attack on October 7, while the guy was carrying a budget to pay his staff at the bridge site in Pirojpur district, South Korea. South Bangladesh. It was the fourth homicide since June 2019 of a Chinese citizen running on a giant infrastructure allocation in Bangladesh.
“I had a very telephone verbal exchange with my Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. We talked about the Chinese citizen killed by an assailant in Pirojpur district. I trusted him that the killers face a quick trial and that the police have already arrested two people. “adding a guy who allegedly stabbed the victim,” AK Chancellor Abdul Momen told BenarNews on Friday.
“The foreign minister has entrusted me that China remains confident that we will do justice and ensure the protection and security of Chinese citizens running on progression projects in Bangladesh,” Momen said of his verbal exchange on Thursday.
Dhaka has a warm relationship with Beijing. In 2018, China spent US$1. 3 billion (110 billion taka) on projects that added $800 million (67. 8 billion taka) in the electricity sector to the largest investor in Bangladesh.
China is the main country offering loans to Bangladesh for progression projects basically in the energy, roads, railways and data and communications generation sectors These projects are connected to One Belt, One Road, Beijing’s ambitious program to build a global network of ports, roads. , railways, bridges and power plants to link China to foreign markets.
The victim, known as a 58-year-old Chinese citizen, Lau Phan, the leading electrician of the 8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge under structure on the Kocha River, died on October 7, according to Hayatul Islam Khan, Pirojpur’s police leader. District.
Hossain Sheikh, 19, who allegedly stabbed Lau in the chest, and an alleged accomplice, Sabbir Sheikh, 20, were arrested, Khan said, adding that the prosecution’s case against the two is not over.
“They told us they would attack him,” Khan told BenarNews.
“Hossain had painted under Lau, but lost his job in March while Sabbir continued to paint for him,” Khan said, noting that 14 Bangladeshi were on the team. “On the afternoon of October 7, Lau carried 253,000 taka ($2,984) to pay salaries from painters.
The police leader noted that Sabbir had told Hossain that Lau would pay workers’ wages that day.
“Hossain took him and ran away, but Lau caught him, ” said Khan. “Hossain then stabbed him,” he said, adding that Lau had been taken to the hospital where he died.
China will supply $30 million (2. 5 billion taka), while Bangladesh will have to contribute $43 million (3. 6 billion taka) to the bridge project structure of approximately 1 km (six tenths of a mile), which is expected to be completed until June 2021.
Previous deaths
Last year, a Chinese citizen died on the allocation of the Payra force plant in the southern district of Patuakhali, a fight between bangladeshi and Chinese workers. An industry union leader said it was the first time a foreigner had been killed in an office confrontation in Bangladesh.
Hours earlier, a Bangladeshi employee died after falling from a height as part of a China-funded project, prompting a confrontation between staff in both countries. The Chinese victim of combat, an electrician. He died after suffering a head injury and excessive bleeding, and dozens of people were injured in combat.
The clash revealed obvious tensions between 7,000 Bangladeshis and 2,700 Chinese on the Chinese-budgeted plant in Patuakhali, a district about 329 km south of Dhaka.
Five months later, in November 2019, a Chinese citizen was returned to his home country for trial after he allegedly killed his roommate, another Chinese citizen. Yang Zeyang, a worker at the Payra power plant, allegedly stabbed and killed Feng Lue Jun. a discussion about food.
In December 2019, two Bangladeshi security guards were arrested after allegedly strangling another Chinese citizen, known as Jianhui Gao, in his Dhaka apartment before burying him near him. Bangladesh.
In February, Li Jiming, China’s ambassador to Dhaka, said about 8,000 Chinese citizens were running in Bangladesh.
Repatriation of the Rohingya
Momen also told BenarNews that he had also discussed efforts to repatriate thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees with Wang, adding that China’s most sensible diplomat said Myanmar could take steps to allow refugees to return after the COVID-19 pandemic has improved.
“China’s foreign minister told me that Myanmar officials trusted China that they would accept Rohingya refugees. He also said China will hold an assembly on the repatriation of the Rohingya,” he said.
“The date of the assembly has still been set, but I hope you can take a position after the general election in Myanmar,” Momen said of the November 8 vote.
The last assembly involving Bangladesh, China and Myanmar was held outside the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2019.
Munshi Faiz Ahmad, Bangladesh’s former ambassador to Beijing, said China is the only country to meditate on repatriation talks.
“The United States and Western countries talk about the Rohingya, but China is the only country that can get Myanmar to agree to recover the Rohingya,” he told BenarNews.
“Therefore, Bangladesh will have to work hard with China and the United States on the Rohingya crisis, which is a huge burden on us. “
On Thursday, the United States pledged another $200 million to the United Nations for the Rohingya at a virtual foreign convention that raised $600 million.
Bangladesh is home to approximately one million Rohingya in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district, and a total of 740,000 fled Rakhine State in Myanmar following the army’s crackdown in August 2017.