Rohingya call for recognition as Myanmar holds fresh repatriation talks

The Guardian

Agence France-Presse

Sun 28 Jul 2019 

Virtually no Rohingya have volunteered to go back to Myanmar, where the group has faced decades of repression

Some 740,000 Rohingya fled a 2017 crackdown by Myanmar’s military and are living in squalid conditions in camps in Bangladesh. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images 

  A top-level Myanmar government delegation began repatriation talks with Rohingya leaders in a Bangladesh refugee camp on Saturday, an official said, with many of the Muslim minority fearing for their safety if they return home.