Arakan News Agency
The Rohingya on Saturday criticized a plan to repatriate refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, scheduled to begin next Tuesday, and said it was aimed at shortening the Muslim minority in camps for long periods while their ancestral lands were being confiscated.
Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to repatriate about 750,000 refugees who have arrived since October 2016 in a two-year process due to begin on Tuesday but many Rohingya refugees reject the agreement and say they do not want to return to Arakan after fleeing atrocities including murder, rape and arson. To their homes.
Human rights groups and the United Nations say that any repatriation of refugees must be voluntary while ensuring the security of returnees in a state where ethnic hatred prevails.
Concerns are also growing about the conditions in Myanmar, where hundreds of Rohingya villages have been destroyed with growing concerns that large numbers of them are being held in camps for long periods of time.
