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Anti-repatriation refugees go on rampage

Three Rohingyas killed in police firing

By Farid Hossain
At least three Rohingyas were killed on Friday when police opened fire to disperse several thousand refugees protesting their planned repa trlation to Myanmar, officials said.
The trouble occurred al Duapalong tn Ramu when about 2.000 militant refugees. some of them holding guns, clashed with police to leave their makeshift camp for staging street protests against repa trlation. officials reached by telephone In Cox's Bazar said.
The officials said police opened fire in self-defence af ter some demonstrators used
guns wounding Additional Superintendent of Police Mesbahun Nabi and three con stables. Police earlier failed to break up the demonstrators with batons.
Police said two refugees died on the spot, while an other succumbed to bullet wounds on way to hospital. It wus not immediately known how many people were injured during the three-hour fight.
According to doctors, six refugees and three policemen have been hospitalised with serious injuries.
Police arrested about 200 refugee demonstrators and
seized lethal weapons from many of them
The Rohingyas have been staging protests on Cox's Bazar-Teknaf highway since Bangladesh sent 47 refugees back home Tuesday, marking the start of a delayed repatria tton of 265,000 people who fled military persecution tn Arakan.
A repatriation of the refugees were scheduled to start from May J 5. but It was put off following similar protests that left at least 10 people killed
In sending the 47 refugees back home, the authorities
kept the entire process secret apparently fearing violence
The demonstrators urged the government to halt further repatriation and bring back those who have already re turned home.
During Friday s protests the demonstrators rampaged through Duapafong camp de straying huts, canvas tents, damaging relief office and in Juring the Camp in Charge A R Majumder. They also blocked the traffic on Cox’s Bazar Teknaf highway for several hours before reserve police ar rived and cleared the road A feature of the latest violence Is that some local residents Joined police tn fighting the refugees. A newly-formed group of local residents — Rohingya Repatriation Action Committee (RRAC) — has demanded that the refugees be sent home as early as possible.
Latest reports from Cox's Bazar said trouble also erupted In Gumdum Camp-1 where armed refugees attacked government relief officials and security forces.
Details of the Gumdum violence were not immediately available.
Meanwhile, the Dhaka mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has offered to help Bangladesh in easing the tension in and outside the refugee camps.
Darioush Bayandor. head of UNHCR Dhaka office, said his organisation was holding talks with the government to review the degree of tension both Inside and outside the refugee camps.
Bayandor said he had conveyed his mission's regrets to Bangladesh government for sending the 47 refugees back home without its knowledge.
"We are not opposed to the repatriation. But it would have been better to Invite the UNHCR to exercise Its International mandate of ensuring voluntary and safe repatriation of the refugees." Bayandor told The Dally Star.
He said the UNHCR always
supported repatriation of refugees to their home, but "it has to be voluntary and especially on the basis of an individual's Judgement of the condition offered for the return." There has to be a transparency and credibility." he said.
Bangladesh officials, who escorted the first batch of returnees to Maungdwe tn Arakan said the refugees wqrc received well. But since Journalists have little access to Myanmar, it was difficult to obtain an Independent view about how the returnees were treated by the Myanmar authorities.