Dhaka Bangladesh is to move Rohingya Muslims from crowded refugee camps to a remote island vulnerable to extreme weather next month. Shelters and flood defences have been built on Bhashan Char, which rose from the Bay of Bengal in 2006, for the 100,000 people expected to be moved there. Plans to relocate the nearly one million Rohingya who fled persecution in Burma have stalled several times. A UN expert has warned that the island may not withstand tidal surges caused by tornados, which have killed hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis. (AFP)
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