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Bangladesh, UNHCR to Survey Rohingya Regarding Return to Myanmar

Reuters

   DHAKA - Bangladesh will work with the United Nations refugee agency to
   determine if more than 3,000 Rohingya refugees will accept Myanmar's
   offer to return home, an official said Monday, nearly a year after a
   major repatriation plan failed.

   More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Rakhine for camps in Bangladesh after a
   military-led crackdown in August 2017 that the United Nations has said
   was perpetrated with "genocidal intent," but many refugees refuse to go
   back, fearing more violence.

   "It will be a joint exercise led by UNHCR," Abul Kalam, Bangladesh's
   Refugee Relief and Repatriation commissioner, told Reuters by telephone
   Monday, referring to the refugee agency.

   The United Nations Security Council is due to discuss the latest
   repatriation plan behind closed doors Wednesday at the request of
   France, Britain, the United States, Germany and Belgium, diplomats
   said.

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