NAYPYITAW Myanmar plans to begin letting Rohingya Muslims who fled to neighboring Bangladesh during a military crackdown back into the country as early as November, but at a glacial pace that would not see the process completed for nearly a decade.
Win Myat Aye, Myanmar's minister for social welfare, relief and resettlement, discussed the plans in an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review in the Myanmar capital on Oct. 11. In addition to heading the ministry in charge of repatriation, he is also responsible for implementing recommendations compiled in August by a commission on the Rohingya issue led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
