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Return Home: Rohingya and Bangladesh

return home: More than 620,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Burmese security forces began what they called clearance operations following an attack on 30 police posts by a group of Rohingya militants, according to CBC. Bangladesh officials said the repatriations will start within two months. Myanmar, also known as Burma, announced the agreement Thursday but didn't provide details on how many Rohingya refugees who have fled a brutal crackdown in the country's Rakhine state would be allowed to return home. A good thing in principle' Speaking to reporters from Bangladesh, where she also visited Rohingya refugee camps, Bibeau said the agreement was a good thing in principle. Myanmar, Bangladesh agree on terms for Rohingya's return Amid 'deep concern' for Rohingya refugees, Trudeau meets with Myanmar leader Suu Kyi Rae urged to pressure Myanmar's neighbours to stop military's attacks on Rohingya Presented just a day before the Myanmar military launched its latest crackdown, the report, by the former United Nations secretary general, recommended that the Myanmar government take concrete steps to end enforced segregation of Rohingya Muslims in the majority-Buddhist country and hold human rights abusers accountable. We haven't seen the terms of the agreement, but we hope we would see what was recommended in the Kofi Annan report that the rights of the refugees would be respected; that they would be going back voluntarily, Bibeau said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.