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MNA Exclusive Desk: The United Nations’ human rights investigator on Myanmar urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to drop plans to start repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees to Rakhine state this month, warning they would face a “high risk of persecution”.
The two countries agreed on 30 October to begin the returns to Myanmar in mid-November. The UN refugee agency has already said that conditions in Rakhine state were “not yet conducive for returns”.
Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement that she had received credible information from the refugees in Cox’s Bazar that “they are in deep fear of their names being on the list to be repatriated, causing distress and anguish”.
It has “failed to provide guarantees they would not suffer the same persecution and horrific violence all over again,” Lee said.
