Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees have demonstrated in Bangladesh calling for their return to Burma five years after the exodus to avoid reprisals from the Burmese army.

About a million members of this minority live in tin shacks in 34 camps in southeastern Bangladesh, without work, in poor conditions and without education.

An increasingly hardline Bangladesh has prevented them from demonstrating after organizing a mass protest movement in August 2019 involving 100,000 people. However, the authorities allowed Rohingya groups to organize “come home” rallies on the eve of International Refugee Day, which falls on Monday.

In 2018, investigators from a United Nations fact-finding mission tasked with investigating the killings and forced displacement of Rohingya Muslims in Burma recommended that high-ranking Burmese military leaders be prosecuted and prosecuted on suspicion of crimes against humanity and genocide.