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Balukhali camps tense

Rohingyas set up roadblocks, hold protest rallies

By Staff Correspondent
Rohingya refugees set up roadblocks and took out Street procession* Friday at Teknaf to protest their planned repatriation and killing of a fellow refugee, according to reports rer-etved In Dhaka last night
One refugee was killed and another 20 were Injured Thursday when Ansar* fired on about 2.000 refugees who attacked a government relief of flee to protest their repatria tion.
The local administration, meanwhile. stepped up police patrol for Balukhali camp, the scene of Thursday’s clashes and asked it* more than 2 1.00O Inmates to stay Inside the camp
A* tension mounted In the
camps, refugees mourning the death of the fellow Inmate of fered prayers and held protest rallies. They sought Allah» blessings for their safety
Repatriation of about 2.55.000 refugees win to begin Friday, but it am* put off until thia sreckend following the dash
The refugees say they will not return home until human rights situation Improve* there
Police *ald they removed several roadblock* on Teknaf-Cox'* Bazar Highway on Friday that refugee* erected with tree-trunk*
Traffic on the 60 kilometer (40 mile) highway came to a halt for at least five hours
Also on Friday thousands of refugees paraded the highway tn groups shouting "We won't go back until Burmese (Myanmarese) military is pun Ished for it* crime.'
No fresh violence was reported in the rugged hilly region which houses the refugees in 12—clusters of flimsy bamboo huts and makshifl tents.
The Muslim refugees have arrived from Myanmar's west cm province of Arakan and say they have escaped mas sac res, rapes, murders and conscription for forced labour.
Facing an international pressure Myanmar last month agreed to take back the refugees, but rejected a proposal to Involve the UNHCR intb the process.
The refugees demand that the UNHCR be Involved into their repatriation to monitor their resettlement at home.
Bangladesh Environment and Forests Minister Abdullah Al Noman toured the refugees on Friday and later asked officials to 'behave humanly with the refugees.'
"Wc want the refugees to go back home. But that does not mean we will push them back by force," he said.
Officials from Bangladesh and Myanmar will meet at the frontier town of Tcknaf on Sunday to decide when to start the repatriation.
Officials said they have decided to persuade the refugees to return home.
•Wc believe the situation inside Myanmar has become congenial for their returA. Our policy Is to persuade the refugees to return voluntarily.' said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The UNHCR and *everal international human rights groups have expressed reservation* against the repatriation plan.
■We don't know how Myanmar will treat the returnees since we don't have any access to that country. ‘ said a UNHCR official at Cox's Bazar.