{"id":44638,"date":"2018-01-16T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44638"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:06:45","slug":"bangladesh-agrees-with-myanmar-to-complete-rohingya-return-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44638","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh agrees with Myanmar to complete Rohingya return in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"

DHAKA Jan 16 (TNS):<\/strong> \u00a0Bangladesh has agreed to complete the process of returning Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar within two years after repatriation begins, the south Asian nation said on Tuesday, following a meeting of the neighbors to implement a pact signed last year.<\/p>\n

A statement by the Bangladesh foreign ministry did not say when the process would begin. But it said the return effort envisages \u201cconsidering the family as a unit,\u201d with Myanmar to provide temporary shelter for those returning before rebuilding houses for them.<\/p>\n

The statement said Bangladesh would set up five transit camps which would send Rohingyas to two reception centers on the Myanmar side of the border.<\/p>\n

\u201cMyanmar has reiterated its commitment to stop outflow of Myanmar residents to Bangladesh,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The meeting in Myanmar\u2019s capital Naypyitaw was the first for a joint working group set up to hammer out the details of the November repatriation agreement.<\/p>\n

The Myanmar government has not issued its own statement after the meeting and government spokesman Zaw Htay was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n

Zaw Htay said earlier, however, that returnees would be able to apply for citizenship \u201cafter they pass the verification process\u201d.<\/p>\n

A Myanmar agency set up to oversee repatriation said in a statement last Thursday that two temporary \u201crepatriation and assessment camps\u201d and one other site to accommodate returnees had been set up.<\/p>\n

Myint Kyaing, permanent secretary at Myanmar\u2019s Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, told Reuters earlier this month Myanmar would be ready to begin processing least 150 people a day through each of the two camps by Jan. 23.<\/p>\n

The Rohingya crisis erupted after Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts on Aug. 25 in the western state of Rakhine triggered a fierce military response that the United Nations denounced as ethnic cleansing. Some 650,000 people fled the violence.<\/p>\n

Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing, saying its security forces had mounted legitimate counter-insurgency clearance operations.<\/p>\n

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DHAKA Jan 16 (TNS): \u00a0Bangladesh has agreed to complete the process of returning Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar within two years after repatriation begins, the south Asian nation said on Tuesday, following a meeting of the neighbors to implement a pact signed last year. A statement by the Bangladesh foreign ministry did not say when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[889,19],"tags":[890,932],"class_list":["post-44638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhaka","category-world","tag-dhaka","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44640,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638\/revisions\/44640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}