DHAKA, Bangladesh—A Bang-ladesh Cabinet minister gave a list of 8,032 Rohingya refugees to his Myanmar counterpart to begin repatriations of the Muslim minority under a November agreement between the two countries. Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said last Friday the list contained the members of 1,673 Rohingya families. He did…
In Photo: Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan receives Myanmar Home Minister Kyaw Swe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 16. Kyaw Swe, on a three-day visit to Bangladesh, told the country’s president that Myanmar is ready to take back Rohingya Muslims who fled violence, though Bangladesh said it wanted the hundreds of thousands of refugees to have a safe and dignified return.
The two countries originally agreed to begin the repatriations last month, but they were delayed by concerns among aid workers and Rohingya that they would be forced to return and face unsafe conditions in Myanmar. “The Myanmar side cordially accepted the list, and they sought our help to make it happen,” Khan told reporters. Kyaw Swe did not speak to the reporters.
Khan said Bangladesh expressed its desire for safe and secure conditions and a proper infrastructure for the refugees’ return. Abedin also quoted Kyaw Swe as saying that Myanmar will implement the recommendations of a commission led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to improve conditions in Rakhine state, where the refugees previously lived.
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