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Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to take assistance from the U.N. refugee agency for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The two governments\u00a0signed a pact on Thursday<\/a>\u00a0settling the terms for the repatriation process, and the return of the\u00a0Rohingya<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Myanmar<\/a>\u00a0is expected to start in two months.<\/p>\n Uncertainty over whether the\u00a0United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)<\/a>\u00a0would have a role had prompted rights groups to insist that outside monitors were needed to safeguard the Rohingya\u2019s return.<\/p>\n More than 600,000 Rohingya sought sanctuary in\u00a0Bangladesh<\/a>\u00a0after Myanmar\u2019s military launched a brutal counter-insurgency in their villages across the northern parts of Rakhine State following attacks by Rohingya militants on an army base and police posts on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe signing of the deal is a first step. The two countries will now have to work on more steps,\u201d Ali told a news conference.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth countries agreed to take assistance from the UNHCR in the Rohingya repatriation process,\u201d he said. \u201cMyanmar will take its assistance as per their requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n A joint working group of the three parties will be formed within three weeks and the group will fix the final terms to start the repatriation process, said Ali.<\/p>\n \u201cOur priority is to ensure their safe return to their homeland with honour,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n After repatriation, Rohingya Muslims will be kept at makeshift camps near to their abandoned homes, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cHomes have been burnt to the ground in Rakhine, that need to be rebuilt. We have proposed Myanmar to take help from India and China for building camps for them,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n The U.N. and United States have described the military\u2019s actions as \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d, and rights groups have accused Myanmar\u2019s security forces of atrocities, including mass rape, arson and killings.<\/p>\n Under the deal, Myanmar will take measures to see that the returnees will not be settled in temporary places for a long time and Myanmar will issue them an identity card for national verification immediately on their return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" France 24 Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to take assistance from the U.N. refugee agency for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Saturday. The two governments\u00a0signed a pact on Thursday\u00a0settling the terms for the repatriation process, and the return of the\u00a0Rohingya\u00a0to\u00a0Myanmar\u00a0is expected to start in two months. Uncertainty… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}