Naypyidaw/Dhaka, Aug. 15 -- Myanmar's military-backed government has said it has verified more than 426,000 Rohingya refugees on a list submitted by Bangladesh and acknowledged more than 308,000 of them as citizens, referring to them as former residents of western Rakhine state, and pledged to accept their return once security conditions in the war-torn nation improve.
The statement issued from Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes as the Rohingya refugee crisis enters its ninth year, with hundreds of thousands of refugees continuing to reside in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a military crackdown in August 2017.
More than 700,000 Rohingya crossed into Bangladesh post the operation, joining the already hundreds of thousands who h...