Rohingya demand to go home

Sea exodus: A file photo of Rohingya refugees arriving near the refugee settlement of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh in 2017. — Reuters

TENS of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh held a protest on Thursday, 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.