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Al Jazeera Staff

Rohingya campaigners condemn Myanmar’s ‘opaque’ repatriation plan

Nearly 800,000 Rohingya fled their homeland in Myanmar in 2017 after a brutal military crackdown [File: Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]

The Myanmar military’s “pilot project” to repatriate about 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has been met with scepticism, with rights campaigners calling it a “PR campaign”.

Last week, a delegation from Myanmar visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – home to more than 1 million Rohingya – to interview potential candidates for their return as early as next month.

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