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Bangladesh, Burmese Junta Initiate Rohingya Repatriation Talks
[BenarNews] Bangladeshi government officials this week had their first meeting with Burmese junta representatives on the issue of repatriating Rohingya refugees who are sheltering in Bangladesh.The repatriation talks, the first in more than a year, have been moving at a snail’s pace since more than 700,000 of Myanmar’s stateless Rohingya ethnic minority fled to southeastern Bangladesh in August 2017 after a brutal military offensive against them in Rakhine, their home state. Bangladesh noted that it was dismayed at Myanmar’s tardiness in the vetting and verifying of Rohingya refugees, a statement issued Friday by Dhaka’s foreign ministry said about the meeting a day earlier. The verifying of refugees by Myanmar is a prerequisite for their return. Posted by: trailing wife 2022-01-29 |
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