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Friday, May 3, 2019

5,000 Rohingyas languishing inside Myanmar, not allowed to go home

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, back from Cox’s Bazar
Published  May 2nd, 2019
Most of the Rohingya refugees are currently living in various camps in Cox's Bazar, however some of them are still trapped in no man's land between the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and are unable to return to their homes Dhaka Tribune

Attitude reflects Myanmar’s unwillingness to take its people back, say officials

Several thousand Rohingyas have been languishing inside Myanmar since the latest influx that started in August, 2017, but they are not allowed back home by their own border police.

During a recent visit to the Gundhum-Tambru border area between Bangladesh and Myanmar, Dhaka Tribune saw the Rohingyas living in weak makeshift homes in an area near the Bangladesh-Myanmar international border.