On Bhasan Char, Rohingya refugees observe Eid without family festivities

ARAB NEWS
SHEHAB SUMON
June 16, 2024

A Rohingya refugee woman carries her child as she walks through a market in Bhasan Char on June 16, 2024. (AN Photo)

• More than 35,000 Rohingya have been relocated to Bhasan Char since end of 2020
• It is illegal for refugees to leave the remote Bangladeshi island

DHAKA: Sebon Bahar’s fondest memories of Eid Al-Adha are the hug she would share with her mother to celebrate the occasion, an experience that has grown distant now that she is living on a remote Bangladeshi island.

Govt strengthens surveillance on NGOs in Rohingya camps

Dhaka Tribune
Jamal Uddin
Publish : 16 May 2024, 

• Programs must be implemented under the supervision of the District Commissioner
• There are concerns that terrorist organizations exploit unknown NGOs to destabilize the camps
  

Undated image shows Rohingya refugees walking at a camp in Cox's Bazar. Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

 

As conflict and violence escalate in Myanmar, the government has heightened security measures in Rohingya camps to closely monitor the activities of local and foreign NGOs to prevent any unrest.

‘We want them to be able to live independently’: Why a Japanese non-profit is training Rohingya refugees

CNA
Michiyo Ishida @Michiyo
Jalelah Abu Baker @Jalelah
30 Apr 2024

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees sit on wooden benches of a navy vessel on their way to the Bhasan Char island in Noakhali district, Bangladesh, December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

TOKYO: Bhasan Char, an island about 60 km from Bangladesh's mainland, is home to 35,000 Rohingyas fleeing persecution and violence in Myanmar.

Fisheries skills can improve lives of Rohingyas in Bhasan Char: Nippon Foundation chief

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
06 April, 2024

As part of Government's Ashrayan-3 project, Bhasan Char began hosting Rohingya refugees relocated from Cox's Bazar in December 2020 

Photo: Courtesy

Developing fisheries skills among the Rohingya youth can enhance the community's quality of life in Bhasan Char, said Nippon Foundation Chairman Sasakawa Yohei. 

1,250 more Rohingya refugees taken to Bhasan Char

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 01 Mar 2024, 

A bird’s eye view of Rohingya camps in Bhasan Char. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

Another 1,250 Rohingyas have left for Noakhali's Bhasanchar from Teknaf and Ukhiya Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.

The Rohingyas willing to go to Bhasanchar voluntarily were taken to Ukhiya Degree College grounds in Cox's Bazar by bus from various shelter camps around 11:30pm on Thursday night.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအတွက် ဂျပန်စာနာမှု အကူအညီ UNICEF စတင် ဖြန့်ဖြူး

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
၀၁ မတ်၊ ၂၀၂၄ 

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ 

ဂျပန်အစိုးရက ရက်ရက်ရောရော ကူညီပံ့ပိုးပေးတဲ့ ဒေါ်လာ ၂.၇ သန်းကို Cox’s Bazar ခရိုင်နဲ့ Bhasan Char ကျွန်းတို့မှာ ရှိနေကြတဲ့ အမျိုးသမီး၊ ကလေးငယ်တွေအပါအဝင် သက်ကြီးရွယ်အို ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေအတွက် ကူညီ ထောက်ပံ့ပေးမှုတွေ တိုးချဲ့ဆောင်ရွက်နေတယ်လို့ UNICEF ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ကလေးငယ်များ ရံပုံငွေအဖွဲ့က ပြောပါတယ်။

Rohingya relocation: 1,500 more to go to Bhasan Char from Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 13 Feb 2024,

• Schedule to sail to Bhasan Char by a naval ship on Wednesday morning
• Already brought to Cox’s Bazar from camps
• Earlier, 32,000 Rohingyas relocated to Bhasan Char

Rohingyas are seen to go to Bhasan Char by bus on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Photo: Bangla Tribune

Another 1,500 Rohingyas are moving from the camps in Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Char in Noakhali as the internal conflict in Myanmar is impacting the border areas of Bangladesh.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ေနာက္ထပ္ ၃၈၀ နီးပါး Bhasan Char ကၽြန္းေပၚ စတင္ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕

VOA
ဗီြအိုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
25 ႏိုဝင္ဘာ၊ 2021 

 စစ္တေကာင္းခ႐ိုင္တြင္း ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းဆီ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းေနတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား။ (ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၅၊ ၂၀၂၁)

နိုင္ငံတကာက စိုးရိမ္မႈေတြရွိေနတဲ့ၾကားမွာပဲ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ေနာက္ထပ္ ရာနဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ aအာ္ထဲက Bhashan Char က်ြန္းဆီ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရက ဒီကေန႔ စၿပီး ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းေနပါတယ္။

ဒုကၡသည္ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေရးကို ၾကီးၾကပ္တဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္တာဝန္ရွိသူ Shamsud Douza က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡ သည္ ၃၇၉ ေယာက္ကို ေရတပ္သေဘၤာနဲ ့ စစ္တေကာင္းကေန Bhasan Char က်ြန္းေပၚ ပို႔မယ္လုိ႔ေျပာ ပါ တယ္။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို ကျွန်းပို့တာရပ်ထားဖို့ HRW တိုက်တွန်း

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
23 နိုဝင်ဘာ၊ 2021

Bhasan Char ကျွန်းသို့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ ပြောင်းရွှေ့သည့် မြင်ကွင်း။ (ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၄၊ ၂၀၂၀)

 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ၊ Bhasan Char ကျွန်းပေါ်ကို ပြောင်းရွှေ့ခံရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ လွတ်လွတ်လပ် လပ်သွားလာခွင့်နဲ့ တခြားအခွင့်အရေးတွေကို အကာအကွယ်မပေးဘဲနဲ့တော့ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို ကျွန်းပေါ်ေြ ပာင်းတာ ရပ်ထားသင့်တယ်လို့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးစောင့်ကြည့်လေ့လာရေးအဖွဲ့ (HRW) က ဘင်္ဂလား ဒေ့ရှ် အာ ဏာပိုင်တွေကို တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

They Warned Their Names Were on a Hit List. They Were Killed

bdnews24.com
Hannah Beech, The New York Times
Published: 15 Nov 2021

The Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, June 19, 2019. Adam Dean/The New York Times

At night in the refugee camps, with only a thin tarpaulin wall as protection, Mohammed waits for the men to come and kill him.

In less than a month, assassins have killed at least eight people in the Rohingya refugee settlements of southeastern Bangladesh, silencing those who have dared to speak out against the violent gangs that plague the camps. As with Mohammed, the militants threatened their victims before they killed, leaving their targets in a perpetual panic.

“I am living under the knife of a fearful and depressing life,” said Mohammed, a community organiser whose full name is not being used because of the documented risks he faces. “I came to Bangladesh from Myanmar because I would be killed there. Here, also, there are no guarantees for a safe life.”

Rohingyas were promised a new home in Bangladesh. They are now trying to escape it

New York Times
By Saif Hasnat, Sameer Yasir,
Oct 11, 2021,

Buildings meant to accommodate Rohingya refugees at Bhasan Char, Bangladesh, in the Bay of Bengal.Credit...Mahmud Hossain Opu/Associated Press

They Were Promised a New Home. Then They Tried to Escape It. 

Bangladesh is relocating Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to a vulnerable, environmentally unstable island that is giving some cause to run again.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Its name translates into “floating island,” and for up to 100,000 desperate war refugees, the low-slung landmass is supposed to be home.

One refugee, Munazar Islam, initially thought it would be his. He and his family of four fled Myanmar in 2017 after the military there unleashed a campaign of murder and rape that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. After years in a refugee camp prone to fires and floods, he accepted an invitation from the government of neighboring Bangladesh to move to the island, Bhasan Char.

10 more Rohingyas who fled from Bhashan Char arrested

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Desk
May 31st, 2021

Three brokers were also arrested by the police

Police have arrested 10 more Rohingyas, including three children, who had fled from Bhashan Char.

They were held from the Ichakhali area under Mirsarai upazila by Zoraganj police early Monday.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Nur Hossain Mamun confirmed the matter, reports Bangla Tribune.

2,495 Rohingyas off to Bhasan Char in sixth phase

Prothom Alo

Prothom Alo English Desk
31 Mar 2021,

First batch of Rohingyas arrives at Bhasan Char, NoakhaliProthom Alo file photo

Nearly 2,500 Rohingyas are being relocated from the camps in Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char island in the sixth phase.

Cox’s Bazar Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Shah Rezwan Hayat said 47 buses carrying the Rohingyas have reached Chattogram.

Rohingyas willing to go to Bhasan Char were brought to the temporary transit point at Ukhiya Degree College ground and given necessary items including food, water and medicine.

Rohingya Majhis (leaders) said many forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals are now willing to move to Bhasan Char after learning about the facilities and quality of life there.

'Alhamdulillah, more than happy with Bhasan Char facilities'

THE ASIAN AGE

AA News Desk
06 December 2020

Rohingya man sharing his experiences with others in Cox's Bazar over phone

 

Sayed Ullah, one of the Rohingyas landed in Bhasan Char on Friday, could not hold his feelings of extreme happiness seeing all the facilities there and kept calling relatives back in Cox's Bazar camps to join the next batch. "Alhamdulillah. We are extremely happy. I had never imagined that such a beautiful place is waiting for us with so many facilities," he told UNB over phone.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၁,၆၀၀ ကျော် Bhasan Char ကျွန်း ပြောင်းရွှေ့

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
04 ဒီဇင်ဘာ၊ 2020

 Bhasan Char ကျွန်းသို့ Rohingya ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ ပြောင်းရွှေ့တဲ့ မြင်ကွင်း။ (ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၀၄၊ ၂၀၂၀)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အစိုးရက နိုင်ငံတွင်းမှာရှိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တချို့ကို ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်းကို ဒီနေ့ စတင်ပို့ ဆောင်နေပြီဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို အဲဒီကျွန်းကို ပို့မယ်အစီအစဉ်ကို ရပ်တန့်ဖို့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအဖွဲ့တွေ က တောင်းဆိုနေပေမဲ့လည်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အစိုးရက ဒီနေ့မှာ စတင်ပို့ဆောင်လိုက်တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ Cox’s Bazar ဒေသမှာရှိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေထဲက ဦးရေ ၁,၆၀၀ ကျော်ကို တင်ဆောင်ထားတဲ့ ဘင်္ဂ လားဒေ့ရှ်ရေတပ်သင်္ဘော ၇ စင်းဟာ ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်းကို ဒီနေ့ မနက်ပိုင်းမှာ ထွက်ခွာခဲ့တာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ နောက်ထပ် သင်္ဘော ၂ စင်းကတော့ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေအတွက် အစားအစာတွေ နဲ့ တခြားလိုအပ်တဲ့အရာတွေကို တင်ဆောင်ပြီး ထွက်ခွာသွားပါတယ်။

Cox's Bazar က ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ Bhasan Char ကျွန်းပေါ် စတင်ပြောင်းရွှေ့

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
03 ဒီဇင်ဘာ၊ 2020

 

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များကို ဘတ်စ်ကားနဲ့ Bhasan Char ကျွန်းဆီ ပို့ဆောင်တဲ့ မြင်ကွင်း။ (ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၀၃၊ ၂၀၂၀)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံက ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ နေထိုင်နေကြတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင်တွေကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် အစိုး ရက Bhasan Char ကျွန်းကို စတင်ပြောင်းရွှေ့နေပြီဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အာဏာပိုင်တွေက Cox’s Bazar ဒေသက ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာရှိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေထဲက ၄၀၀ ကျော်ကို ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်း ကို ပို့ဖို့အတွက် ဘတ်စ်ကား ၁၀ စင်းထက်မနည်းနဲ့ တင်ဆောင်ပြီး စစ်တကောင်းဆိပ်ကမ်းကို ဒီကနေ့မှာ စတင်ပို့ဆောင်ခဲ့တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

Relocation to Bhashan Char: Rohingyas ‘being coerced’ into getting registered

The Daily Star 

Staff Correspondent
November 22, 2020

Amnesty Int’l says based on allegations from 5 refugee families in Cox’s Bazar

Amnesty International issued a statement yesterday saying that they received allegations from Rohingya refugees about government officials in charge of camps coercing them into registering for relocation.

"According to local media reports, the Bangladeshi government has completed preparations to relocate 300 to 400 Rohingya refugees to the silt island of Bhashan Char this month on a 'voluntary basis'," said the statement.

Human rights group to govt: Facilitate a visit to Bhasan Char

Dhaka Tribune 

Tribune Desk
November 12th, 2020

File photo: Forcibly displaced Rohingya refugees playing football at a refugee camp in Bhashan Char ISPR

 

The government is moving forward with plans to relocate up to 100,000 Rohingya from Cox’s Bazar district to Bhasan Char

Five human rights organization have requested the government of Bangladesh to facilitate and provide access to Bhasan Char, including unfettered access to meet with Rohingyas.

The five organizations are Amnesty International, Refugees International, Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, Fortify Rights, and ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR).