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Bangladesh to move more Rohingya

Muslims to remote island, despite
outcry
Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to Bhasan Char island since early December from
border camps in neighbouring Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where more than a million
refugees live in ramshackle huts perched on razed hillsides.

By: Reuters | Dhaka |

February 14, 2021 9:32:54 pm

The Rohingya refugees will be moved to Bhasan Char by ships on Monday and Tuesday, Navy
Commodore Rashed Sattar said from the island. (Representational Image)

Bangladesh is moving 3,000-4,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal
island over the next two days, two officials said on Sunday, despite concerns about the risk of
storms and floods lashing the site.

Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to Bhasan Char island since early December from border camps
in neighbouring Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where more than a million refugees live in
ramshackle huts perched on razed hillsides.

The Rohingya refugees will be moved to Bhasan Char by ships on Monday and Tuesday, Navy
Commodore Rashed Sattar said from the island.
Read |Biden orders sanctions against Myanmar after military coup

Bangladesh says the relocation is voluntary, but some of a first group to be moved spoke of being
coerced.The government has dismissed safety concerns over the island, citing the building of flood
defences as well as housing for 100,000 people, hospitals and cyclone centres.

It also says overcrowding in refugee camps fuels crime.Once they arrive on Bhasan Char, the
Rohingya, a minority group who fled violence, are not allowed to leave the island, which is several
hours’ journey from the southern port of Chittagong.

Bangladesh has drawn criticism for a reluctance to consult with the United Nations refugee agency
and other aid bodies over the transfers.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says the agency has not been allowed to evaluate the
safety and sustainability of life on the island. “The process of moving the Rohingya will continue…
they are going there happily for better life,” Mohammad Shamsud Douza, the deputy Bangladesh
government official in charge of refugees, said by phone from Cox’s Bazar in southeastern
Bangladesh.”

Our main priority is repatriating them to their homeland in a dignified and sustainable way,” he
said.

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Bangladesh has called on Myanmar to move forward the stalled process of voluntary repatriation of
Rohingya refugees, as international pressure mounts on the military leaders following a coup,
which reduces the refugees’ hopes of returning home.

“I don’t see any future for us,” said 42-year-old refugee, who chose to move the island. “The little
hope we had of going back to our homeland was broken after the coup.”

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