Myanmar/Bangladesh: Plan Puts Rohingya at Risk

Expand Rohingya refugees arrive at night from Myanmar to Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 27, 2017. © 2017 Damir Sagolj/Reuters (New York) – The Myanmar and Bangladesh governments should immediately suspend the proposed repatriation of Rohingya refugees set for mid-November, Human Rights Watch said today. The expedited plan, announced on October 30, 2018, would return refugees to dire conditions in Myanmar where their lives and liberty are at risk. “Myanmar’s government keeps talking about returns, but it has done nothing to allay the Rohingya’s fears of being returned to the same violence and…

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