MYANMAR: ‘Conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine not in place to enable safe returns – UN refugee agency’, UN News Centre, 24 November 2017

Amid reports of an agreement between the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar on return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, the United Nations refugee agency has underscored that 'At present, conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state are not in place to enable safe and sustainable returns.' Over the past three months, widespread inter-communal violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state resulted in some 622,000 people fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh. Prior to this latest crisis, Bangladesh was already hosting well over 200,000 Rohingya refugees from earlier displacements.' 'Conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine not in place to enable safe returns - UN refugee agency', UN News Centre, 24 November 2017