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Rohingya call for recognition as Myanmar holds fresh repatriation talks

Virtually no Rohingya have volunteered to go back to Myanmar, where the group has faced decades of repression

A top-level Myanmar government delegation began repatriation talks with Rohingya leaders in a Bangladesh refugee camp on Saturday, an official said, with many of the Muslim minority fearing for their safety if they return home.

Some 740,000 Rohingya fled a 2017 crackdown by Myanmar’s military and are living in squalid conditions in camps in Bangladesh’s south-eastern border district of Cox’s Bazar.

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