165 Bangladeshi boatpeople due for July 22 repatriation: Arakan official
The Burmese government says it will repatriate 165 out of what it claims are more than 500 Bangladeshi nationals who were found abandoned at sea off Burma’s coast in May and have been living at temporary camps in Arakan State.
Soe Naing, deputy director of the Maungdaw District Immigration and Population Department, told The Irrawaddy that the Bangladeshi consul had informed the department that his government would take back 165 out of 544 so-called “boatpeople” being sheltered at camps in Taung Pyo Let Wai village in Maungdaw Township.
