Refugees more than once, Rohingya fear return to Myanmar
KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh — Mohammad Younus is a refugee for the second time.
The 30-year-old Rohingya Muslim, who has been slowly rebuilding a shadow of a normal life in a sprawling and squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh, is in no mood to return home to Myanmar.
After Myanmar expressed readiness to start receiving an estimated 680,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled incredible violence over the last five months, Younus said he would rather die in the camp than go back again to the land of his birth.
“They have been killing Muslims for a long time now,” he said. “We run and come to Bangladesh. Then we go back. We come back to Bangladesh, and go back again. They continue the killings.”