Aljazeera
19 May 2023
Human Rights Watch says Bangladesh ‘shouldn’t forget why Rohingya became refugees’ and recognise that those factors have not changed.
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A Rohingya delegation boards a boat at Teknaf, Bangladesh on May 5, 2023 to visit Myanmar's Maungdow township where the military government plans to house them [File: AFP]
The Human Rights Watch has criticised sharply a plan to return Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, saying it poses “grave risks” to their lives and liberty.
Bangladesh is home to about a million Rohingya, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that is now subject to a United Nations genocide investigation.