The Myanmar government has confirmed it asked Bangladesh to arrest and extradite more than 1300 Rohingyas suspected of participating in a rebel assault against government checkpoints in Rakhine State last year.
The August 25 incident led to a violent military operation against the alleged insurgents, triggering a humanitarian crisis as at least 650,000 people from the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority community fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.
The Information Committee of the Myanmar State Counsellor Office led by the Nobel Peace laureate and the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, published photographs of the alleged members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.
According to the Information Committee, the Foreign Affairs Ministry - also led by Suu Kyi - made the demand to its Bangladeshi counterpart during a bilateral meeting held in Naypyidaw in mid-November.
ARSA's attack on police outposts in August led to an aggressive retaliation by Myanmar's security forces.
Human rights organisations accuse them of committing rapes, murders and razing Rohingya villages.
Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on a repatriation process for the refugees arriving in Bangladesh, which is expected to start next week.
Several humanitarian organisations have repeatedly denounced the agreement on the grounds that conditions are not yet safe enough for the Rohingyas to return to Myanmar.
