Mizzima: Refugees Repatriation form

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Refugees Repatriation from Bangladesh

Dhaka, December 9, 2000
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)

According to officials from Refugee Repatriation Section in Cox's Bazar,
total 20,866 Rohingya refugees are still camping in Norya Para and Kutu
Plong camps in Bangladesh. The refugees are being repatriated on every
Wednesday to Burma. Minimum 20 to maximum 100 refugees are being
repatriated weekly.

Out of 8,000 refugees that Burmese government agreed to accept, nearly
4,500 refugees were already repatriated to Burma between the period of
July 1999 and first week of December 2000.