COX'S BAZAR: Bangladesh wants to send up to 1,00,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar in the first batch of repatriations of Muslim refugees who fled ethnic violence this year, officers said on Friday.
Senior minister Obaidul Quader said an inventory of 1,00,000 names used to be to be sent to Myanmar authorities on Friday so repatriations may just get started in overdue January under an accord between the two governments.
More than 6,55,000 Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine state have sought refuge in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in overdue August, fleeing what the US and United Nations have described as ethnic cleansing.
That added to greater than three,00,000 in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing earlier violence in the Buddhist majority state.
The two governments signed an settlement in November taking into consideration repatriations from January 23. Many help groups and diplomats doubt that frightened Rohingya will agree to go back.
The Rohingya had been the objective of past pogroms in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which does not recognise the gang as a real ethnicity and has stripped them of citizenship.
Quader said repatriations would get started as soon as a running workforce of officers from the two international locations finalise an inventory of names.
"Based on the decision of the joint working group, a first list of 1,00,000 Rohingya will be sent to the Myanmar government today for their safe and honourable return," Quader, highway transport minister and deputy leader of the ruling Awami League, told newshounds throughout a consult with to Cox's Bazar where the refugee camps are.
"The next meeting of the working group, which will be held in Myanmar, will decide how the repatriation process begins," Quader added.
"This list will be finalised as early as possible. The repatriation process will begin after the list is finalised."
Abul Kalam Azad, the federal government reduction commissioner for Rohingya refugees, said a choice used to be made Thursday through Bangladeshi members of the repatriation running workforce to send an inventory of 1,00,000 refugees to Myanmar.
He told AFP repatriations would start after Myanmar verifies the checklist and the authorities in Bangladesh get consent from willing refugees.
Most Rohingya refugees approached through AFP in the camps insist they do not need to go back, announcing Rakhine isn't safe sufficient. Diplomats have expressed doubt about whether Myanmar will permit considerable numbers to go back.
According to Azad, nearly a million Rohingya are living in Bangladesh, a lot of whom had been there for many years. Myanmar has agreed to take back those refugees who arrived since October 2016, believed to quantity about 7,00,000.
Senior minister Obaidul Quader said an inventory of 1,00,000 names used to be to be sent to Myanmar authorities on Friday so repatriations may just get started in overdue January under an accord between the two governments.
More than 6,55,000 Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine state have sought refuge in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in overdue August, fleeing what the US and United Nations have described as ethnic cleansing.
That added to greater than three,00,000 in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing earlier violence in the Buddhist majority state.
The two governments signed an settlement in November taking into consideration repatriations from January 23. Many help groups and diplomats doubt that frightened Rohingya will agree to go back.
The Rohingya had been the objective of past pogroms in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which does not recognise the gang as a real ethnicity and has stripped them of citizenship.
Quader said repatriations would get started as soon as a running workforce of officers from the two international locations finalise an inventory of names.
"Based on the decision of the joint working group, a first list of 1,00,000 Rohingya will be sent to the Myanmar government today for their safe and honourable return," Quader, highway transport minister and deputy leader of the ruling Awami League, told newshounds throughout a consult with to Cox's Bazar where the refugee camps are.
"The next meeting of the working group, which will be held in Myanmar, will decide how the repatriation process begins," Quader added.
"This list will be finalised as early as possible. The repatriation process will begin after the list is finalised."
Abul Kalam Azad, the federal government reduction commissioner for Rohingya refugees, said a choice used to be made Thursday through Bangladeshi members of the repatriation running workforce to send an inventory of 1,00,000 refugees to Myanmar.
He told AFP repatriations would start after Myanmar verifies the checklist and the authorities in Bangladesh get consent from willing refugees.
Most Rohingya refugees approached through AFP in the camps insist they do not need to go back, announcing Rakhine isn't safe sufficient. Diplomats have expressed doubt about whether Myanmar will permit considerable numbers to go back.
According to Azad, nearly a million Rohingya are living in Bangladesh, a lot of whom had been there for many years. Myanmar has agreed to take back those refugees who arrived since October 2016, believed to quantity about 7,00,000.
Bangladesh targets 1,00,000 for 1st Rohingya repatriation
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