Rohingya protest in Bangladesh and demand repatriation to Myanmar

People walk through a Rohingya refugee camp in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh, on March 9, 2023. - AP

DHAKA, June 9 (Reuters): Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh protested on Thursday evening, demanding to be repatriated to Myanmar, so that they could leave the squalid camps they have lived in since fleeing a brutal military crackdown in their homeland in 2017.

More than a million Rohingya have been crammed into the camps in southeastern Bangladesh, the world's largest refugee settlement. Most fled the crackdown by Myanmar's military almost six years ago, although some have been there for longer.