Bangladesh prepares to repatriate 3,500 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar nearly two years after a brutal military crackdown sparked their exodus across the border
A Rohingya refugee family walks back with relief material collected from aid agencies inside Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. November 17, 2018.
by the UN – joining 200,000 already there – but virtually none have volunteered to return despite the countries signing a repatriation deal. "Everything is ready ... the land transit point has been prepared," Kalam told reporters after a meeting with Myanmar officials in Cox's Bazar, southeast Bangladesh, where the refugees live in vast camps.
The new push follows a visit last month to the camps by high-ranking officials from Myanmar led by Permanent Foreign Secretary Myint Thu.
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