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Rohingya Refugees Deeply Skeptical About Repatriation Plan

Bangladesh, which has taken in more than 650,000 refugees, hopes to start sending them back to Myanmar this week — but only if they agree to go.
Shafika Khatun, 30, lives in what's known as the "widows' village" of the Hakimpara camp for Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There are no men in the cluster of 34 shelters. Most of the women's husbands were killed in the recent violence.

In the Hakimpara refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees are denouncing a new repatriation deal that aims to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar over the next two years. Their primary objection to the plan, which is supposed to start sending

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