Rohingya’s to return home when conditions are right: Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has said Rohingya Muslim refugees should return to Myanmar only of their own accord and when the “conditions are right”. After a visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh, the British foreign secretary stressed there should be international oversight of any repatriation to Rakhine province, from which thousands fled last summer. “While I welcome steps by both the Burmese and Bangladeshi governments towards ensuring that these people can return home, it is vital that the Rohingya refugees must be allowed to return to their homes in Rakhine voluntarily, in safety and with dignity, under international oversight, and when the conditions in Burma are right,” he said. Johnson toured a camp that has taken in some of the estimated 650,000 Rohingya who fled from violent attacks last year

Boris Johnson at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. Source: Getty Images