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A rare conference is putting Rohingya refugees back in the global spotlight eight years after fleeing Myanmar.
Bangladesh is hosting a three-day conference in Cox's Bazar, where refugees are set to share their hopes with diplomats and global partners.
Dhaka says the talks aim to revive repatriation and move the world from words to action.

Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng has more from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

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00:00A rare conference is putting Rohingya refugees back in the global spotlight,
00:05eight years after fleeing Myanmar.
00:07Bangladesh is hosting a three-day conference in Cox's Bazaar,
00:11where refugees are set to share their hopes with diplomats and global partners.
00:16Dhaka says the talks aim to revive reparation and move the world from words to actions.
00:24Tony Cheng joins us now live from Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh.
00:28Tony, what's on the agenda today?
00:34Well, the conference, the main event is going to be the interim leader of Bangladesh,
00:39Muhammad Yunus, speaking to the gathered countries,
00:4310 major donor countries, including China, Turkey, Qatar, Thailand,
00:49about how to get this story back on the global agenda.
00:54He feels it's slipped away, and the situation here in the camp is getting increasingly perilous.
01:00But here in the camp itself, where the largest refugee camp in the world,
01:04where 1.5 Rohingya currently reside,
01:08people have gathered together to demonstrate,
01:11to mark the eighth anniversary of the Rohingya genocide,
01:14when 700,000 were forced out of their homes in Arakan State, in Myanmar.
01:20They came over here to the border.
01:22Over the years that have followed, more have come,
01:25and they are calling for justice.
01:27They want to see justice for the Rohingya,
01:30and ultimately, they want to go home.
01:32There is a sort of awareness that this conference is going on,
01:35but there is still a growing frustration here.
01:38The Rohingya, who many people call the most persecuted minority in the world,
01:4390% of whom have been forced out of their homes to different places around the world,
01:49many of them here on the Bangladeshi border,
01:53that there is no justice for them,
01:54and they are forced to live in, really, frankly, very trying conditions.
01:59Tony, do those Rohingya that you are with think that this conference
02:04is going to improve their circumstances somehow?
02:12Well, frankly, there isn't a huge amount of awareness
02:15of what's going on about an hour up the road at that conference centre,
02:19but I think people are hopeful in the way that desperate people are hopeful.
02:24This is the only chance they have at this stage.
02:27A lot of people here gathered today for this demonstration
02:30wearing T-shirts, calling for justice,
02:34and I think they are hopeful that Muhammad Yunus will represent their best interests.
02:39One of the things that's interesting about this conference
02:42is there have been attempts to speak directly to Rohingya leadership,
02:47and the people who are here in the camps are going to be going to the conference
02:52over the next couple of days to speak directly to those donor countries
02:56and the UN agencies.
02:59But at the same time, I think it is enormously frustrating
03:02for many of these people here.
03:03The one thing they really want is to go home,
03:06and at this stage, with fighting just a couple of kilometres over the border,
03:10that's next to impossible.
03:12All right, Tony Cheng in Bangladesh.
03:14Thank you very much.
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