Rohingya campaigners condemn Myanmar’s ‘opaque’ repatriation plan

Aljazeera
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 23 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023

Rights campaigners call the ruling military’s pilot project to repatriate the persecuted ethnic Muslim minority a ‘PR campaign’.

Nearly 800,000 Rohingya fled their homeland in Myanmar in 2017 after a brutal military crackdown [File: Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]

 

The Myanmar military’s “pilot project” to repatriate about 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has been met with scepticism, with rights campaigners calling it a “PR campaign”.