Commentary: Why the Rohingya refugees should not be repatriated yet

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"NEW DELHI: Last month, Bangladesh and Myanmar announced the signing of a new agreement to begin the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from their makeshift camps in Cox?s Bazar to Rakhine State within the coming weeks. Close to 720,000 Rohingya had fled to Bangladesh since last year August. So far, Myanmar has cleared only 4,600 names for return from the original list of more than 8,000 from Dhaka. While announcing the latest return deal, Myanmar?s foreign secretary, Myint Thu said there was a ?very concrete plan” to start the return process ?at the earliest possible date” and framed the decision as a show of ?political will, flexibility, and accommodation”. His Bangladeshi counterpart, Shahidul Haque, said that repatriation should begin mid-November..."

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Angshuman Choudhury

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Channel Newsasia (CNA)

Date of Publication: 

2018-11-12

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2018-11-13

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English