‘Can’t eat, can’t sleep’: Rohingya on Myanmar repatriation list

Horrific nightmare: Rohingya refugees crossing the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2017 to flee the violence. Many are now living in fear as the Bangladesh government plans to repatriate about 2,000 of the refugees this month. – Reuters

FOR Nurul Amin, a Rohingya Muslim living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, the days since learning he and his family were among a group of people set to potentially be repatriated to Myanmar have been among the most frightening since they fled their home.

“I can hardly sleep at night for fear of getting forcibly repatriated. Since the time I heard that my name is on the list I can’t even eat,” says Amin, 35, who has four daughters, a wife and sister with him in the Jamtoli Camp in southeast Bangladesh.