Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to repatriate Rohingya displaced by an army crackdown within two years, Dhaka said, the first concrete timeline for a return of hundreds of thousands of refugees even as conditions for their homecoming remain uncertain.
The deal, hammered out in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw this week, applies to approximately 750,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar in two major outbreaks of violence since October 2016, when militants from the stateless Muslim minority first attacked border guard posts in northern Rakhine state.