Why Rohingya refugees still can't return to Myanmar

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · Aug 24, 2026 · 991 words · By David Hutt

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Why Rohingya refugees still can't return to Myanmar August 24, 2026 Myanmar's military-backed government is again talking about bringing Rohingya refugees home from refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.

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What happened

Why it matters

Earlier this month, authorities in Naypyidaw, Myanmar's capital, said they had made progress verifying Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh for possible repatriation.

Common ground

Of the 820,000 names submitted by Bangladesh, Myanmar said it had verified around 308,000 as former residents but would not repatriate them until security conditions improve in civil war-torn Rakhine State.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The Rakhine-based ethnic Arakan Army... now controls much of the state, including northern areas from which many Rohingya fled.”

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Claim 2: “Muslim-majority Bangladesh now hosts around 1.2 million Rohingya refugees, mostly in camps around the southern coastal district of Cox's Bazar, according to UN bodies.”

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Multiple sources, including Anadolu Ajansı, report that Bangladesh hosts more than 1.2 million Rohingya, primarily in Cox's Bazar.

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web search NEUTRAL — Since 2017, Bangladesh has hosted more than one million Rohingya refugees who fled violence and persecution in Myanmar. Today, most refugees live in Cox’s Bazar, one of the largest refugee settlements…
https://www.unrefugees.org/news/2026/01-january/inside-cox-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — COX’S BAZAR – The almost one million Rohingya refugees and their host community in Cox’s Bazar remain vulnerable and need continued support – almost five years since they were forced to flee their hom…
https://www.wfp.org/news/two-years-covid-19-pandemic-rohingy…

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web search NEUTRAL — Bangladesh now hosts more than 1.2 million Rohingya, according to UN and humanitarian estimates, with most living across 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar and more than 30,000 relocated to Bhasan Char, a remote…
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/-in-the-worlds-largest…

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Claim 3: “Myanmar does not recognize the Rohingya as one of its 135 officially recognized ethnic groups”

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Multiple sources, including Anadolu Ajansı and other web results, confirm that the Myanmar government does not recognize the Rohingya among its 135 official ethnic groups.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2015, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people were forcibly displaced from their villages and IDP camps in Rakhine State, Myanmar, due to sectarian violence. Over 700,000 fled to neighbouring Bang…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Rohingya_refugee_crisis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nationality law of Myanmar currently recognises three categories of citizens, namely citizens, associate citizens, and naturalised citizens, according to the 1982 Citizenship Law. Citizens, as def…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_nationality_law

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rohingya people (; Rohingya: 𐴌𐴗𐴥𐴝𐴙𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝, romanized: ruáingga; IPA: [rʊˈɜi̯ɲ.ɟə]) are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who predominantly follow Islam from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Before …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people

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Claim 4: “the United States argued in 2022 that members of the military had committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya.”

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Web search results explicitly mention that the United States argued in 2022 that members of the military committed genocide and crimes against humanity.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO / 𐴀𐴝𐴌 𐴀𐴠𐴥𐴏 𐴖𐴡) is a Rohingya insurgent group and political organisation. It was founded in 1982 following a large scale military operation by the Tatmadaw (My…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_Solidarity_Organisati…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the Tatmadaw (armed forces of Myanmar). The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide

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Claim 5: “Myanmar's 2021 coup triggered a nationwide civil war”

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Claim 6: “More than 750,000 Rohingya... fled to Bangladesh”

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Confirmed by multiple independent sources including UNHCR and Wikipedia, stating that over 740,000 to 750,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in 2017.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals from Rakhine State who are living in Bangladesh. The Rohingya people have experienced ethnic and religious persecution in Myanm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_refugees_in_Banglades…

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Claim 7: “UNICEF reported last year that admissions of Rohingya children for treatment of severe acute malnutrition had risen 27% year-on-year.”

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Claim 8: “UN reporting has documented serious abuses against Rohingya by both the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, including restrictions on movement, arbitrary detention and forced recruitment.”

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Claim 9: “UN investigators found evidence of genocidal intent by Myanmar's military”

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Multiple web search results confirm that UN investigators found evidence of 'genocidal intent' by the Myanmar military.

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web search NEUTRAL — UN investigators found evidence of genocidal intent by Myanmar's military, while the United States argued in 2022 that members of the military had committed genocide and crimes against humanity agains…
https://www.dw.com/en/rohingya-refugees-myanmar-repatriation…

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web search NEUTRAL — The results of the US investigation were released in low-key fashion — posted on the State Department’s website — nearly a month after UN investigators issued their own report accusing Myanmar’s milit…
https://www.arabnews.com/world/us-accuses-myanmar-military-o…

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web search NEUTRAL — The military of the South-East Asian nation of Myanmar conducted mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with the intent of genocide and the country's commander-in-chief and five generals shou…
https://bnn-news.com/un-sees-genocidal-intent-in-myanmar-arm…

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Claim 10: “The UN and Bangladesh say $710 million (€608 million) is needed in 2026 for the most urgent refugee and host-community needs, of which around 60% has been funded.”

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Claim 11: “A genocide case brought by the West African nation of Gambia against Myanmar remains before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant adult content links and does not provide any information regarding the ICJ case brought by Gambia.

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Claim 12: “The EU has allocated €23.4 million in humanitarian funding for Bangladesh this year... and separately announced a €14 million development grant through UNHCR in June.”

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Claim 13: “Of the 820,000 names submitted by Bangladesh, Myanmar said it had verified around 308,000 as former residents”

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Multiple independent web search results (Reuters and others) confirm that Myanmar's military-backed government verified nearly 309,000 (approximately 308,000) displaced people as former residents of Rakhine State.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA; Rohingya: 𐴀𐴝𐴌𐴏𐴝), formerly known as Harakah al-Yaqin (Arabic: حركة اليقين, lit. 'faith movement'; Rohingya: 𐴀𐴝𐴥𐴓𐴘𐴝𐴑𐴞𐴕), is a Rohingya insurgent group originat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arakan_Rohingya_Salvation_Army

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Claim 14: “In August 2017, Myanmar's military launched sweeping operations in northern Rakhine state after alleged attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) militant group on security posts.”

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Web search results explicitly state that in August 2017, Myanmar's military launched operations in Rakhine state in response to attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rakhine (Burmese and Rakhine: ရခိုင်လူမျိုး) or Arakanese are a Southeast Asian ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma) forming the majority along the coastal region of present-day Rakhine State (formerly…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakhine_people

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arakan ( or ; Burmese: ရက္ခိုင် [jəkʰàɪɴ], Rakhine: အာရက္ခ [à.ɹəkʰa̼]), formerly romanized as Aracan, is the historical geographical name for the northeastern coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, cove…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arakan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rakhine State ( rə-KYN; Burmese: ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်, MLCTS: ra.hkuing pranynai, pronounced [jəkʰàiɰ̃ pjìnɛ̀]; Rakhine pronunciation: [ɹəkʰàiɰ̃ pɹènè]), formerly known as Arakan State, is a first-level adm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakhine_State

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