Bangladesh: demonstration of Rohingya refugees to demand their return to Burma

Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh demonstrated on June 19, 2022, on the eve of World Refugee Day, to demand their return to Myanmar.

Here in the largest refugee camp in the world, Kutupalong.

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Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees demonstrated on Sunday June 19 in Bangladesh.

Demonstrations exceptionally authorized by the authorities on the occasion of World Refugee Day on Monday.

They are asking to return home to neighboring Burma, but with citizenship rights.

Because this Muslim minority is still stateless.

More than 800,000 people are surviving in Kutupalong camps on the border, with no end in sight.

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Papers to certify their citizenship, in order to be able to return home: this is what the demonstrators demanded on Sunday.

“ 

 ,” said one of the leaders of the Rohingya community, Sayed Ullah, in his speech.  

Returning, for the Rohingya, means returning to live in Burma in the villages of the Arakan region from which 750,000 people fled in 2017, a

.

But for that, you need papers.

Failing that, it would again be confinement in other camps, planned by Burma.

A few days before these demonstrations, Burmese and Bangladeshi officials had met to discuss the situation for the first time in three years.

Bangladesh pleads for the return of refugees to Burma.

But the situation is still deadlocked. 

Meanwhile in Kutupalong, on the Burmese border, 850,000 Rohingya refugees are surviving in around 30 unsanitary camps.

It is now the largest concentration of refugees in the world.    

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