Hindus who lived alongside the Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state and now are residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh want to return.
"We want security and we want food. If the authorities can give us those assurances we'll happily go back," said Pal, 55, Hindu Rohingyas.
"The Bangladeshi government and the UN looked after us well, but now we have prepared our bags and are ready to return to our country."
Last month Dhaka sent a list of 100,000 refugees to Myanmar authorities for repatriation after the two governments signed an agreement in November for the process to begin on January 23.
But rights groups and the United Nations say no one should be repatriated against their will and so far only around 500 Hindu refugees have expressed willingness to go.
Modhuram Pal, a 35-year-old community leader, said some 50 Hindus had already returned to Rakhine where they were welcomed by Myanmar security forces.
But Pal and his fellow Hindu refugees say they will only go back if they are flee from their former villages in Rakhine.
Monubala, a Hindu woman who like many of the refugees goes by one name, said masked men dressed in black had attacked her village near Kha Maung Seik, where the massacre occurred.
Doctors without Borders estimated that thousands were killed in the violence that hit Rakhine in late August, reports, the DNA India.
Bangladesh wants the more than 655,000 refugees who have flooded into the country since late August to start returning to Myanmar by the end of this month under a controversial agreement between the two nations.
The vast majority are Rohingya Muslims who have faced decades of persecution in Myanmar, which sees them as illegal immigrants, even though many have lived there for generations.
They say they would rather stay in the squalid camps in Bangladesh than return to the scene of violence the US and the United Nations have said amounts to ethnic cleansing.