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Myanmar to take 1,000 Rohingya refugees in pilot programme: junta

Myanmar to take 1,000 Rohingya refugees in pilot programme: junta

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Myanmar will accept the return of around 1,000 Rohingya refugees in a pilot repatriation programme, with a junta spokesman telling AFP Wednesday the resettlement would likely begin by mid-April.

"We will receive people back according to both countries' agreement... About 1,000 people will be in (the) first batch," Zaw Min Tun told AFP.