M<\/span>r Twigg added that the refusal to allow the committee to enter Burma hampered its job of overseeing projects funded by a \u00a3100 million Department for International Development (DFID) aid programme for 2018-19.<\/p>\n MPs had been due to visit health and education projects in Rakhine state<\/a>, home to the Rohingya minority, and in the Magway region of central Burma.<\/p>\n I<\/span>n January the committee\u2019s report raised \u201cgrave concern\u201d about plans to repatriate refugees, decrying the \u201chuge human tragedy\u201d that had been created by Burma\u2019s actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n M<\/span>Ps cautioned that the repatriation plans<\/a> were \u201cwell apace\u201d without guarantees of protection or that the first batch of returnees would be voluntary.<\/p>\n An agreement to return the refugees in stages has been drawn up between the Burmese and Bangladeshi governments, but a push from Naypyidaw to begin the repatriation in late January was put on ice for logistical reasons.<\/p>\n F<\/span>ears of being forced to return have swept the camps sheltering traumatised refugees. Community leaders are demanding that Burma first guarantee the Rohingya long-denied citizenship and include them on the list of the country\u2019s recognised ethnic groups.<\/p>\n On Wednesday hundreds of Rohingya living in the no man\u2019s land between the two countries abruptly fled into Bangladesh.<\/p>\n