The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said that peace and stability must be restored in Myanmar’s Rakhine state before starting Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards came up with the remarks on Friday while addressing a press briefing in Geneva.
“It is critical that the returns are not rushed or premature. People can’t be moving back in into conditions in Rakhine state that simply aren’t sustainable,” Adrian Edwards said.
According to Reuters, some 20,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar to Bangladesh in November, and at least 270 so far in December, bringing the total since violence erupted on August 25 to 646,000, according to UNHCR and Leonard Doyle of the International Organization of Migration (IOM).