"Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for a political solution to the Rohingya crisis so that the Rohingyas could return to Rakhine State “freely and safely”. “There should be a political solution,” he told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen at a hotel in the capital, reports UNB. Ban appreciated Bangladesh’s role in sheltering over 1.1 million Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar camps and sought continued support for Rohingyas from the UN agencies and humanitarian organisations. The former UN chief said the Myanmar government should show much more generous and compassionate support to Rohingyas so that they can return to their home country “freely and safely”, adds BSS. About his experience of visiting Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar during his last tour of Bangladesh this year, Ban said, “It’s a very tragic situation …. It was hard to describe [the sufferings of Rohingyas]. What I felt that was so sad.”..."