Rohingya say will not go home to Myanmar to be stuck in camps


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  • Saturday, 06 May 2023

FILE PHOTO: Some Rohingya Muslim refugees and Bangladeshi officials on a boat return after visiting Myanmar's Rakhine State as part of an effort to encourage their voluntary repatriation, in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer

DHAKA (Reuters) -Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Saturday they would not return to Myanmar to "be confined in camps" after making their first return visit as part of efforts to encourage their voluntary repatriation.

Nearly a million Rohingya Muslims live in squalid camps in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox's Bazar.

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