BANGKOK — A senior cabinet minister and army general from Myanmar arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday to discuss a trouble-plagued scheme to repatriate Rohingya Muslims who fled military assaults and now are in camps in Bangladesh. In less than half a year, around 700,000 Rohingya escaped attacks in their home state, Rakhine, and what the international community has called ethnic cleansing by Myanmar’s security forces. The Myanmar government insists it is committed to the repatriation of those Rohingya who can prove they recently left Rakhine. But few expect that the two days of meetings between Lt. Gen. Kyaw Swe, Myanmar’s home minister, and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, his Bangladeshi counterpart, will elicit much action. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyOn Monday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh called on the international community to increase pressure on Myanmar to take back the Rohingya.

Source: New York Times February 15, 2018 10:41 UTC