Repatriation of hundreds of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar appears to fall flat with no one turning up to hop on five buses and 10 trucks laid on by Bangladesh, officials say
Some 740,000 of the long-oppressed mostly Muslim Rohingya minority fled military raids in 2017 in Myanmar's Rakhine state that UN has likened to ethnic cleansing.
"We have been waiting since 9:00 am to take any willing refugees for repatriation," Khaled Hossain, a Bangladesh official in charge of the Teknaf refugee camp, told AFP news agency after over an hour of waiting.Some 740,000 of the long-oppressed mostly Muslim Rohingya minority fled military raids in 2017 in Myanmar's Rakhine state that the United Nations has likened to ethnic cleansing, joining 200,000 already in Bangladesh.
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