Rohingya Refugees Terrified of Being Forced Back to Myanmar

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''“How can we go back?” Mohammad, a Rohingya refugee in a Bangladesh camp called to tell me. “They will kill us if we go back.” There is panic in the refugee camps, he said, after Myanmar and Bangladesh announced plans to start refugee repatriations very soon. While the Bangladeshi government accepted approximately 700,000 Rohingya refugees after the Myanmar army’s ethnic cleansing campaign, Rohingya say authorities are now pressuring them to return. Around 30 families are supposed to leave shortly. Security forces have been deployed in the refugee camps even as Bangladeshi officials said that there won’t be any forced returns. Myanmar authorities say they have verified the identities of 4,000 Rohingya to be returned, but no one quite knows who is on that list. Some, fearing that they are included, have fled from the camps. Others threaten or attempt suicide...''

Creator/author: 

Meenakshi Ganguly

ရင်းမြစ်: 

Human Rights Watch

Date of Publication: 

2018-11-14

Date of entry: 

2018-12-15

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  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Bangladesh, Myanmar

Language: 

English

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