Can Rohingya Refugees Hope For a Better Life? Published December 31st, 2020 - 10:30 GMT
A child of Rohingya refugee eats food inside the room of a housing complex at the Bhashan Char island after they were relocated in Noakhali on December 30, 2020. Mohammad Al-MASUM MOLLA / AFP
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They followed a first group of 1,642 relocated to the island, 30 km from the mainland, in early December.
A second group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were on Tuesday taken to an island in the Bay of Bengal to start new lives, despite UN concerns for their welfare.
The Bangladeshi navy provided transport for 1,804 Rohingya Muslim refugees members of an ethnic and religious minority group who have fled violence and persecution in Myanmar to the isolated Bhashan Char island from overcrowded makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar.
DHAKA: A second group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were on Tuesday taken to an island in the Bay of Bengal to start new lives, despite UN concerns for their welfare.
The Bangladeshi navy provided transport for 1,804 Rohingya Muslim refugees members of an ethnic and religious minority group who have fled violence and persecution in Myanmar to the isolated Bhashan Char island from overcrowded makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar.
They followed a first group of 1,642 relocated to the island, 30 km from the mainland, in early December.
Under the $370 million relocation project, the Bangladeshi government has built housing units and infrastructure on Bhashan Char for 100,000 Rohingyas to take pressure off the main refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar that already hosts more than 1.1 million people.