Bangladesh to repatriate 8,000 Rohingya

DHAKA: Bangladesh late Friday hand Rohingya to Myanmar as it moves to kick-start their repatriation weeks after the process was halted due to lack of preparation.

- list to his Myanmar counterpart meeting in the Bangladeshi capital.

families to them. The [ Myan cordially and told us they would start processing their repatria

Bangladesh reached a deal with Myanmar late last year to re since August to escape a brutal military crackdown.

That was meant to start last lack of preparation and protests whom say they do not wish to return without guarantees of safety.

- lion Rohingya now live in squalid and Dhaka hoped all of them would be repatriated to Myanmar.

“We discussed how would they repatriate these people. The Myanmar delegation was very cordial about it and said they will take

- France- Presse that Dhaka had Myanmar home minister Gen Swe (R) and his Bangladesh counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan. already started construction of a transit camp and would start building another next week to facilitate the return of the Rohingya.

foreign minister said they had signed a deal to involve the United Nations in the process of returning Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

involving the UN refugee agency so that it could not be accused of sending anyone from the stateless Muslim minority back against their will.

out repatriation forms in the

But Rohingya refugees are still entering Bangladesh with claims of rights abuses by Buddhist mobs and the military in their native Rakhine state.

- edged people were still crossing the border.

has admitted it and told us they will try their best to stop it as

Many Rohingya have lost their homes to arson attacks in their rights groups say entire Rohingya settlements have been burned to the ground.

New arrivals have brought and torture.

The Rohingya also want guarantees of citizenship before returning illegal immigrants from Bangladesh even though many have been there for generations.

timeframe to start the repatriation but he hoped it would start soon.

“No specific date came for repatriation but they showed sincerity and are taking preparations to take their nationals

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The two sides also discussed refugees who have been strand Bangladesh- Myanmar border since September.