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Bangladesh to send back Rohingyas.
The Asian Age
5 February, 1998.
 
Dhaka, Feb. 4: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the
Bangladesh government have agreed to repatriate all Burma refugees
sheltered in camps in the southeast of the country "peacefully," a senior
official said Wednesday. 
 
Both the UNHCR and the Government agreed "to resume repatriation and find
a solution to the problems in the camps by this year with the government
emphasis on the repatriation," Mr Wilbert VanHovo, resident chief of the
UNHCR, told AFP.
 
He said Bangladesh would not accept resettlement of the remaining Muslim
refugees, called Rohingyas, and a solution was essential as there can be
"no forced repatriation." "We have this problem (in the camps) be resolved
through peaceful means if possible....although the government if keeping
other options open," Mr VanHovo said. (AFP)
 
Burma Info.
New Delhi.