{"id":7556,"date":"2019-08-23T01:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/22\/rohingya-refugees-turn-down-second-myanmar-repatriation-effort"},"modified":"2019-08-23T01:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:49:51","slug":"rohingya-refugees-turn-down-second-myanmar-repatriation-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7556","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya refugees turn down second Myanmar repatriation effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladeshi official says potential returnees fear for their safety in Rakhine state<\/p>\n<p>A second attempt to repatriate the thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has failed after the authorities failed to convince the refugees it would be safe to return.<\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/myanmar-and-bangladesh-to-start-sending-back-thousands-of-rohingya\">had approved more than 3,000 Rohingya<\/a> to be brought back to the country beginning on Thursday but, as during the first repatriation attempt in November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/13\/rohingya-refugees-flee-camps-to-avoid-return-to-myanmar\">no refugees agreed to voluntarily board the buses<\/a> to Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/22\/rohingya-refugees-turn-down-second-myanmar-repatriation-effort\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladeshi official says potential returnees fear for their safety in Rakhine stateA second attempt to repatriate the thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has failed after the authorities failed to convince the refugees it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,82,494,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}