Bangladesh, Aug. 25 -- The Election Commission (EC) has not yet been given access to a database of more than one million Rohingya, despite a March agreement intended to prevent their inclusion in the country's voter list.

EC officials said that using the database through the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) would make it far easier to detect whether Rohingya refugees are attempting to register as Bangladeshi voters.

The EC has been seeking access to the Rohingya database created in Cox's Bazar to prevent their inclusion in the voter list.

Although discussions and technical meetings on this matter have been ongoing for six months, the UNHCR has not granted the EC access.

"If we had the UNHCR's Rohingya database, the E...