It’s been just over a year since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee Rakhine State. CNN traveled to Myanmar and saw the government’s attempts to convince the media, and the world, that accusations of genocide are false https://cnn.it/2J2E0kc pic.twitter.com/Aef09i9CeN
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But Myanmar officials claim “genocide never happened in our country,” and say they want some of the Rohingya who fled to come back. This camp at the border has been built to house any returning refugees -- but so far, only 11 people have passed through https://cnn.it/2J2E0kc pic.twitter.com/WrBL0AHvQV
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That’s because Rohingya fear if they return to camps in Myanmar, they will never be allowed to leave. It’s happened before -- following violence in 2012, thousands of Rohingya were relocated to ‘temporary’ camps. But nearly 130,000 people are still there https://cnn.it/2J2E0kc pic.twitter.com/QJz6PR3hcg
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Rohingya refugees fear the Myanmar military and police who would be in charge of repatriation are some of the same people the UN says carried out the genocide. With no hope of returning to their original villages, they're stuck in a horrific stalemate https://cnn.it/2J2E0kc pic.twitter.com/IErF3xxR45
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