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Doubts Hang Over Fresh Rohingya Repatriation Attempt to Myanmar

Agence France-Presse

   TEKNAF, BANGLADESH -Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh
   said Wednesday that they did not want to return to their homes in
   Myanmar, raising doubts about a fresh attempt to repatriate the
   stateless, mainly Muslim minority.
   On Thursday, Bangladesh and Myanmar were hoping to begin repatriating a
   few of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled a
   military crackdown two years ago, after a previous attempt in November
   failed.
   Officials from the United Nations and Bangladesh's refugee commission
   have been interviewing more than 200 shortlisted families in the
   settlements in southeast Bangladesh to find out if they would return to
   Rakhine state.
   Bangladesh refugee commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam told AFP five buses
   and two trucks had been hired to take the refugees to a land port.

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