Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have insisted that they would not return to Myanmar to \u201cbe confined in camps\u201d after making their first return visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Bangladeshi border district of Cox\u2019s Bazar, nearly a million Muslims from the Rohingya ethnic group reside in filthy camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The majority of them have been there ever since they fled a military-led crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in 2017 and haven\u2019t been home till now, despite Bangladeshi officials have visited Myanmar on many occasions in an effort to bring the refugees home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday, twenty Rohingya Muslim refugees and seven representatives from Bangladesh visited Maungdaw Township and adjacent villages in Rakhine State to observe the relocation plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beginning in 2017, renewed violence, including reported rape, murder, and arson, triggered an exodus of Rohingya, as Myanmar\u2019s security forces claimed they were carrying out a campaign to reinstate stability in the country\u2019s western region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United Nations has said that those forces showed \u201cgenocidal intent,\u201d and international pressure on the country\u2019s elected leaders to end the repression continues to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have insisted that they would not return to Myanmar to \u201cbe confined in camps\u201d after making their first return visit. In the Bangladeshi border district of Cox\u2019s Bazar, nearly a million Muslims from the Rohingya ethnic group reside in filthy camps. The majority of them have been there ever since they …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":93024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3125,31],"tags":[4528,4527],"class_list":["post-93023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myanmar","category-news","tag-rohingya-persecution","tag-rohingya-refugees-refuse-to-return-home"],"yoast_head":"\n