The government move to relocate 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char has invited some negative international scrutiny, but local NGOs and experts have said international aid agencies might change their minds if they visited the island.
Global rights groups claimed that many of those who were relocated to the housing project in the island under Noakhali s Hatiya upazila were coerced to do so. The UN, meanwhile, said it lacked information on the relocation and was not involved in the exercise.
The government negated the criticisms, saying the concerns about the Rohingya refugees safety and the Bhasan Char project s sustainability were well addressed.