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MNA Exclusive Desk: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has handed a list 8,032 Rohingya refugees to his Myanmar counterpart Kyaw Swe for repatriation.
After a meeting between delegations of the two countries in Dhaka on Friday, Kamal said Bangladesh has listed around 1.1 million Myanmar nationals who have crossed the border. He said the people on the list handed to Swe were from 1,673 families.
Around 700,000 refugees crossed the border after the Myanmar Army launched an ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas on Aug 25 last year following insurgent attacks on security forces in Rakhine State.
The Home Minister said there is no specific timeframe to start the repatriation but he expressed the hope that it will start soon.
He mentioned that a meeting between Bangladesh and Myanmar will be held in a Myanmar district at 10am on Fepuary 20 to take back over 6000 Rohingyas now staying along the zero line.
Following the meeting which ended at 6:15pm, the Myanmar Minister left the venue without making any comment.
