Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 23-11-2017
yanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement covering the return of Rohingya Muslims who fled across their mutual border to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
The agreement on Thursday signed by Cabinet officials in Naypyitaw, Myanmar’s capital provided no details on how many Rohingya refugees would be allowed to return home or how soon that might happen.
More than 620,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when the army began what it called “clearance operations” following an attack on police posts by a group of Rohingya insurgents.
Refugees arriving in Bangladesh say their homes had been set on fire by soldiers and Buddhist mobs, and some reported being shot at by security forces.
The pact, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi s office says, follows a formula set in a 1992 repatriation agreement between the two nations after an earlier spasm of violence.
Under that agreement, Rohingya were required to present residency documents, which few have, before being allowed to return to Myanmar.
Human rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday that the discrimination against Rohingya Muslims has worsened considerably in the last five years, which amounts to “dehumanizing apartheid.”
The United States declared the violence against Rohingya in Myanmar to be “ethnic cleansing,” and threatened penalties for military officers involved in the crackdown.
– AP
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