Officials: Myanmar, Bangladesh Working to Repatriate 3,450 Rohingya Refugees

Radio Free Asia
2019-08-16

A Rohingya man and children appear outside a makeshift home at a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar district, July 7, 2019. BenarNews

Bangladesh and Myanmar said Friday they were working on the first repatriation of Rohingya refugees since members of the ethnic minority fled a massive military crackdown in Rakhine state two years ago, amid confusion over how the process would unfold.

“Myanmar has given clearance to about 3,450 people [to return from refugee camps in Bangladesh],” Mohammad Abul Kalam, chief of Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service.

Myanmar Announces Plan to Repatriate 3,450 of the 700,000 Rohingya Who Fled to Bangladesh

TIME 

By JERRY HARMER and JULHAS ALAM / AP

August 16, 2019

Myanmar's government spokesman Zaw Htay talks to journalists during a press briefing at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Myanmar and Bangladesh are making a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims after more than 700,000 of them fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
Aung Shine Oo—AP

(BANGKOK) — Myanmar and Bangladesh will soon make a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims, 700,000 of whom fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago, officials from the two countries and the United Nations said Friday.

Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Joint Response Plan 2019 funding update as of 2019.07.31

reliefweb

04 August 2019

KEY FIGURES

912,000 Rohingya refugees

336,000 Host communities

USD 920M Overall 2019 appeal

34% or 313M Funding received

The 2019 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya refugee response is only 34 per cent funded, as of 31 July 2019, with USD 313 million received against the overall needs of USD 920 million. Currently the most well-funded Sectors are Education (35%), Food Security (33%) and WASH (31%) based on the respective appeals. Food Security Sector has received so far USD 84 million. In 2019, no funding was yet reported towards Emergency Telecommunications Sector, and Health Sector is only 13% funded.

 

UK Commissioner in Bangladesh Stresses 3-Point Rohingya Return Plan

The Irrawaddy
By Muktadir Rashid
9 July 2019

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson speaks at a press conference in Dhaka on Monday

DHAKA—British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson reaffirmed a three-point plan for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis at a press conference on Monday, but said he looked forward to hearing more about the discussions Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held with her Chinese counterparts on the matter recently.