(CNN) Bangladesh and Myanmar were set to start repatriating Rohingya refugees Thursday, a move that has been widely resisted by many living in the sprawling camps on the border between the two countries.

Myanmar has cleared 3,450 people to return, from a list of more than 22,000 provided by Bangladesh, according to Abul Kalam, Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner for Bangladesh. Kalam said there was capacity to return 300 people per day. "All infrastructure and logistics have been mobilized including adequate security measures to facilitate a voluntary and safe repatriation," Kalam said, adding that the process would be voluntary.

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Massacred at Home, in Misery Abroad, 730,000 Rohingya Are Mired in Hopelessness

NGA KHU YA, Myanmar — Rusting behind barbed wire, rows of trailers at a repatriation center sit empty and uninviting, evocative of a prison awaiting its inmates.

In a deserted arrivals trailer, uniformed officers loiter at their desks, expectant grins on their faces. Signs explain the steps involved in welcoming Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar: Stand here for photographs, go there for identity cards. Men stand guard with security wands, as if this were an international airport rather than an inhospitable holding pen in a desolate frontier.

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