BD, Myanmar agree to start Rohingya return in two months

YANGON: Bangladesh and Myanmar will start repatriating refugees in two months, Dhaka said on Thursday, as global pressure mounts over a crisis that has forced more than 600,000 Rohingya to flee across the border.
The United Nations says 620,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since August to form the world’s largest refugee camp after a military crackdown in Myanmar that Washington has said clearly constitutes "ethnic cleansing".
The statement from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is the strongest US condemnation yet of the crackdown, accusing Myanmar’s security forces of perpetrating "horrendous atrocities" against the group.
Following talks between Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Dhaka’s Foreign Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali held after weeks of tussling over the terms of repatriation, the two sides inked a deal in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw on Thursday. In a brief statement, Dhaka said they had agreed to start returning the refugees to mainly Buddhist Myanmar in two months. It said that a working group would be set up within three weeks to agree the arrangements for the repatriation.