Burma Hopes for Deal With Bangladesh on Rohingya Refugees

Burma State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) talks with Gunnar Wiegand (R), Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific at the European External Action Service, during the 13th Asia Europe Foreign Ministers Meeting (ASEM) in Naypyitaw, Burma, Nov. 21, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

NAYPYITAW–Burma’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday, Nov. 21, she hopes talks with Bangladesh this week will result in a memorandum of understanding on the “safe and voluntary return” of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh in the past three months.

A counter-insurgency operation launched in Burma’s Rakhine State has driven more than 600,000 Rohingya out of the country since late August.