YANGON – International agencies must be allowed to monitor the newly agreed-on repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh to the homes they fled in Myanmar, rights groups said on Friday.
The two governments signed a pact late Thursday settling terms for the repatriation process. They aim to start the return of Rohingya in two months from the sprawling refugee camps that have mushroomed in the Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh over the past three months.
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