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Published: March 22, 2023
Bangla TribuneA
delegation from Myanmar has returned home after verifying the
information of about 500 Rohingyas who are in the process of
repatriation in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar.
The
delegation left Bangladesh on a trawler through the Teknaf-Myanmar
transit jetty at Jaliapara of Teknaf at around 10am on Wednesday.
The delegation comprising 17 members arrived in Bangladesh on March 15.
Aung Myew, director of Myanmar foreign ministry's regional district Maungdu, led the delegation team.
Additional
Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Khalid Hossain said
that the delegation returned to Myanmar after taking interviewing about
500 Rohingya for seven days. They accomplished the work they came for.
The delegation will inform their authorities about this.
According
to the RRRC office, 40 Rohingyas from 16 families of Jadimura and Leda
camps in Teknaf met the delegation on Tuesday. Before this, 86 people
from 21 families were interviewed on Monday, 70 people from 26 families
Sunday, 60 people from 23 families Saturday, 70 people from 16 families
Friday, 70 people from 23 families Thursday and 90 people from 23
families were interviewed last Wednesday and their information was
verified.
In total, about 500 Rohingyas from 147 families have been verified in the last seven days.
Bajlul Rahman, a leader of Jadimura Rohingya camp in Teknaf, said: "The Rohingyas were interviewed about the same things.”
“The
questions included which village in Rakhine the interview candidate's
house was, who was the member, chairman, who was the leader of the
society, how many children were there, and how many children were born
after coming to Bangladesh.”
He
said: "Rohingyas do not want to stay here (Bangladesh) anymore. We want
to go back to our country. But we want to go like this so that we do
not have to return from Myanmar. Repatriation is not being discussed
now. We will present the demands when discussed. We have raised those
issues before.”
Earlier,
the Bangladesh government sent a list of 862,000 Rohingyas for
repatriation to Myanmar. Out of it, 70,000 were selected for
repatriation.
However,
efforts to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar ended in smoke as
the Rohingyas refused to go back to Myanmar without the guarantee of a
safe, secure and dignified return to Rakhine.
More than a million Rohingyas now live in camps in Bangladesh – mostly in Cox's Bazar.
Over 30, 000 Rohingyas have been relocated to Bhasan Char.
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