Rohingyas arriving in Bangladesh from Myanmar and being repatriated is not a new phenomenon. In July 1978, there was a secret repatriation agreement between the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar (then Burma), which became public in 2014. Between mid-1991 and 1992, another wave of Rohingya refugees arrived in Bangladesh. In March 2002, Medicines Sans Frontier published a report about 10 years of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh, saying, among other things, “The refugees need to be viewed not as a burden or ‘residual caseload’ but as human beings, with hopes, voices and rights.”

Source: The Telegraph February 10, 2026 06:24 UTC