Rohingya refugees said they will not go back unless their security can be guaranteed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DHAKA - Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Saturday they would not return to Myanmar to “be confined in camps” after making a visit to the country as part ofNearly one million Rohingya Muslims are living in camps in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox’s Bazar, most after fleeing a military-led crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in 2017.
“We don’t want to be confined in camps. We want to get back our land and we will build our own houses there,” Mr Oli Hossain, who was among the refugees who visited Rakhine State, told Reuters by phone. “Myanmar is our birthplace and we are citizens of Myanmar and will go back with citizenship,” said refugee Abu Sufian, 35.
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