Refugee commissioner Abul Kalam said at a news conference that officials will go to a camp to speak to refugees in the afternoon and transfer any who volunteer across the border to Myanmar.
A U.N.-brokered deal with Bangladesh and Myanmar says refugees can’t be forced to repatriate.
At Jamtoli camp, 25-year-old Setara says she and her two children, ages 4 and 7, are on a repatriation list but don’t want to go. She sent her children to school Thursday morning as usual.
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