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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shaikh Azizur Rahman

REVEALED: Rohingya refugees turn down second myanmar repatriation effort - The Real Truth

Rohingya refugees
Rohingya refugees at the Nayapara refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

A second attempt to repatriate the thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has failed after the authorities failed to convince the refugees it would be safe to return.

The Myanmar government had approved more than 3,000 Rohingya to be brought back to the country beginning on Thursday but, as during the first repatriation attempt in November, no refugees agreed to voluntarily board the buses to Myanmar.

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