MYANMAR
August 22, 2019
By AFP
A driver rests on a bus that was to be used to repatriate Rohingya
refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, in the Shalbagan camp in Teknaf on
August 22. (AFP)
TEKNAF — A fresh push to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar fall flat on Thursday, with no one turning up to hop on five buses and 10 trucks laid on by Bangladesh.
Members of the Muslim minority, 740,000 of whom fled a military offensive in 2017, are refusing to return without guarantees for their safety and a promise that they will at last be given citizenship by Myanmar.