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Repatriation begins

47 Rohingyas sent back home

By Farid Hossain
Fortyseven Rohingya refugees were sent back to Myanmar (Burma) on Tuesday marking the start of a repa triation, earlier stalled by the refugees' violent protests.
Government officials reached by telephone at Cox's Bazar s;dd 1 1 families comprising 47 people were ferried by a boat from Teknaf to Myanmar's frontier town of Maungdwe around 7:30 am.
They said Zlauddln Ahmed, the chief relief official at Rangikhall transit camp from where the refugees were picked, escorted them to Myanmar. The Myanmar officials greeted the returnees with flowers and took them Immediately to their reception camps serving them breakfast and some essential materials.
Commissioner of Chittagong Division Omar Faruk, district commissioner at Cox's Bazar
Enamul Kabir and other senior civilian and BDR officials saw the refugees off at Teknaf.
The officials said the refugees returned home voluntarily keeping with Bangladesh government's policy of voluntary repatriation.
In Dhaka chief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Daiioush Bayandor said they were informed of the repatriation on Tuesday morning by the government officials.
"We have been told by gov eminent officials that 47 refugees were repatriated this morning.* Bayandor said.
However, he said ‘no UNHCR official was present during the repatriation nor the Mission was informed about It before it started."
Bayandor said the UNHCR Mission was In contact with
the government officials tn Dhaka and Cox's Bazar to "obtain clarification of the circumstances of the move ment (repatriation).*
Government officials did not give details about the composition of the refugees or how many men, women or children. But they said more pro pie were expected to be repa t ria ted this week
The repatriation was scheduled to start from May 15 under a Bangladesh Myanmar agreement signed on April 28. But 1t was put off after the refugees said they would not return home unless the UNHCR supervised their repatriation.
Since then Bangladesh and Myanmar held eight rounds of repatriation talks. Another round of meeting is scheduled for next week. More than 265,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh during past one year to escape military a trod tics In Myanmar. They are living tn 20 makeshift camps of mud-and-straw huts and canvas tents.
In recent months the au thorities were under strong pressure from local residents to start the repatriation as soon as possible. But the government said only a handful of militant refugees were blocking the process. At least 500 refugees have been detained by police In past few months for creating violence and committing robberies In the region.
To facilitate the repatriation the authorities transferred the refugees willing to return home to well-guarded Ranglkhali transit camp near Tcknaf. The camp is o(T-limit
to visitors and Journalists.
But reports reaching from the camp indicated that there were at least 136 refugees who had opted to return home. Unconfirmed reports said some men had fled the camp in past few weeks.