COX'S BAZAR: Bangladesh has counted greater than one million Rohingya refugees living in camps near the border with Myanmar, upper than earlier estimates, the head of its registration mission said lately as preparations for their go back were given beneath approach.
The Bangladesh army began biometric registering of the refugees closing yr after the most recent mass inflow of Rohingya from Myanmar, the place the Muslim minority have confronted many years of persecution.
The registration is aimed partly at aiding repatriation of the refugees -- a controversial factor as most say they do not need to go back.
Bangladesh says it desires to begin sending them house subsequent week and has reached an initial settlement with Myanmar to finish the method within two years.
"So far we've registered 1,004,742 Rohingya. They are given biometric registration cards," said Saidur Rahman, a brigadier basic with the Bangladesh army who heads the Rohingya registration mission.
Several thousand more have not begun to be registered, he said.
The figures are upper than the ones equipped by means of the UN, which estimates there are 962,000 Rohingya living in southeast Bangladesh, near the Myanmar border.
That comprises the 655,000 the UN estimates have entered the country since August 25, when the Myanmar army introduced a violent crackdown in Rakhine state following assaults by means of Rohingya militants.
Doctors Without Borders has said at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims had been killed within the first month of the crackdown.
Refugees in Bangladesh have alleged mass rape and popular arson by the hands of squaddies and the Buddhist majority in Rakhine.
Some of the refugees were living in Bangladesh for many years, but the repatriation settlement handiest covers those that have arrived since October 2016.
The two sides said on Tuesday they have agreed to finish the repatriation within a two-year period, the primary concrete timeline given for the refugees' go back.
Rights groups have expressed issues in regards to the tempo of the method, particularly as Rohingya are still fleeing Rakhine.
"With memories of rape, killing and torture still fresh in the minds of Rohingya refugees, plans for their return to Myanmar are alarmingly premature," James Gomez, Amnesty International's regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said the day prior to this.
"The obfuscation and denials of the Myanmar authorities give no reason to hope that the rights of returning Rohingya would be protected, or that the reasons for their original flight no longer exist."
The Bangladesh army began biometric registering of the refugees closing yr after the most recent mass inflow of Rohingya from Myanmar, the place the Muslim minority have confronted many years of persecution.
The registration is aimed partly at aiding repatriation of the refugees -- a controversial factor as most say they do not need to go back.
Bangladesh says it desires to begin sending them house subsequent week and has reached an initial settlement with Myanmar to finish the method within two years.
"So far we've registered 1,004,742 Rohingya. They are given biometric registration cards," said Saidur Rahman, a brigadier basic with the Bangladesh army who heads the Rohingya registration mission.
Several thousand more have not begun to be registered, he said.
The figures are upper than the ones equipped by means of the UN, which estimates there are 962,000 Rohingya living in southeast Bangladesh, near the Myanmar border.
That comprises the 655,000 the UN estimates have entered the country since August 25, when the Myanmar army introduced a violent crackdown in Rakhine state following assaults by means of Rohingya militants.
Doctors Without Borders has said at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims had been killed within the first month of the crackdown.
Refugees in Bangladesh have alleged mass rape and popular arson by the hands of squaddies and the Buddhist majority in Rakhine.
Some of the refugees were living in Bangladesh for many years, but the repatriation settlement handiest covers those that have arrived since October 2016.
The two sides said on Tuesday they have agreed to finish the repatriation within a two-year period, the primary concrete timeline given for the refugees' go back.
Rights groups have expressed issues in regards to the tempo of the method, particularly as Rohingya are still fleeing Rakhine.
"With memories of rape, killing and torture still fresh in the minds of Rohingya refugees, plans for their return to Myanmar are alarmingly premature," James Gomez, Amnesty International's regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said the day prior to this.
"The obfuscation and denials of the Myanmar authorities give no reason to hope that the rights of returning Rohingya would be protected, or that the reasons for their original flight no longer exist."
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