Myanmar delegation visits Rohingya camps for repatriation scheme

26 May 2023
Myanmar delegation visits Rohingya camps for repatriation scheme

A Myanmar government team leaves a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh after a visit as part of a mooted pilot repatriation scheme. Several previous repatriation attempts have failed, but Bangladesh and Myanmar are looking to return around 1,100 people to the violence-wracked state of Rakhine in the coming weeks. The team of 14 Myanmar officials, all in civilian clothes, arrived by boat in the Bangladeshi border town of Teknaf on Thursday morning, went to the camps and talked to around 200 people.