Rohingya fear another crackdown after Myanmar coup

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have opposed the military coup in their home country Myanmar, saying they are worried about the safety of their loved ones.
“We fear that Tatmadaw [Myanmar’s army] will launch an operation again,” 35-year-old Muhammad Ansar, one of the more than 750,000 Rohingya who fled brutal violence and persecution following an army crackdown in 2017, told Anadolu Agency. “We don’t believe that it will ever leave power.”
Thousands of Muslim men, women and children were killed, thrown into fires, and raped in the Buddhist majority nation.
Bangladesh is hosting more than a million Rohingya at cramped makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar, which is considered the world’s largest refugee settlement. Nearly 600,000 of them, however, still reside in the Southeast Asian country, but without citizenship and voting rights.
Myanmar’s military is now in charge and has declared a year-long state of emergency. Leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been charged for breaching import and export laws and possession of unlawful communication devices, remain under house arrest.
Myanmar had earlier said it was committed to the repatriation as per a bilateral agreement with Bangladesh.