At least 10 lakh Rohingya refugees have so far crossed over to Bangladesh to escape shooting and arson attacks by Myanmar army and Buddhist monks since 1942.
However, the authorities concerned in Bangladesh have failed to provide a timeline for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said no exact date to start the repatriation process was discussed at the meeting with Myanmar Home Minister last week.
The Myanmar delegation assured Bangladesh of taking back the Rohingyas from the no man's land 'shortly', Home Minister said.
Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal handed a list of 8,032 Rohingya refugees to his Myanmar counterpart Kyaw Swe for repatriation.
Human Rights Watch on Friday said new satellite images found the Burmese government bulldozing scores of depopulated Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State.
Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a repatriation deal in late November though Myanmar's security forces were accused of rape, mass killings and burning of Rohingya houses.
After the repatriation deal was signed at least 3700 Rohingyas have come into Bangladesh.
Many of the refugees at the Kutupalong Rohingya camp near Cox's Bazar told The Daily Observer that they had doubt about the camps Myanmar had agreed to establish on its side of the border.
Md Farouk, a Rohingya refugee, said some young men in the camp were worried that they might be arrested on charge of terrorism if they returned to Myanmar.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Children's Fund said more than 520,000 Rohingya children were at greater risk ahead of the cyclone season that generally begins in April.
An eight-year-old woman who lost her family's eight members said: "I can't imagine anyone would feel safe at this point to return to Myanmar."
The people she met were frail, scared and in no way ready to return, she said.
The Myanmar army that began crackdown late August last year caused nearly 700,000 Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh.
Earlier waves of violence had previously driven over 300,000 other Rohingyas to Bangladesh from Myanmar where they had been facing persecution for decades. A month after late August, at least 6,700 Rohingyas, including children, were killed.
Severe restrictions imposed by Myanmar on aid groups working in Rakhine State worsened the suffering, it added.
The Myanmar security forces were primarily responsible for the violence. The international community, including the UN Security Council, too failed to take effective action or send a clear message that there would be accountability for the military's crimes against humanity.
The two countries formed a joint panel to repatriate the recently arrived Rohingyas following an agreement signed last year. The panel agreed the 'arrangement on return of the displaced people' from Rakhine on Jan 16.
The repatriation was also scheduled to start in January.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Kamal said 1.06 million Myanmar nationals were registered in Bangladesh.
"We've discussed how they (Myanmar) will take these people back. They (Myanmar officials) sounded very sincere. They said they would take the refugees back gradually," he said earlier.
