Bangladesh PM tells UN human rights official that Myanmar must take Rohingya refugees back

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More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh starting in late August 2017 when the Myanmar military launched a ‘clearance operation’ against them following attacks by a rebel group

Bangladesh’s leader told a visiting UN official on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh must return home to Myanmar, where they had fled waves of violent persecution.

“The Rohingya are nationals of Myanmar and they have to be taken back,” Hasina was quoted as saying by her press secretary, Ihsanul Karim. Hasina and several Cabinet ministers earlier expressed frustration over what they called Myanmar’s inaction in taking them back under the agreement. The UN and Bangladesh authorities have tried at least twice to began repatriations, but the refugees refused to go, citing safety concerns in Myanmar.

Bachelet emphasized the importance of ensuring that safe and sustainable conditions exist and that any returns be conducted in a voluntary and dignified way, it said.

 

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