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.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ၁,၆၀၀ ေက်ာ္ Bhasan Char ကၽြန္း ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
04 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2020

 Bhasan Char ကၽြန္းသို႔ Rohingya ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕တဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၀၄၊ ၂၀၂၀)

 

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရက ႏုိင္ငံတြင္းမွာရွိတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္တခ်ဳိ႕ကို ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းကို ဒီေန႔ စတင္ပို႔ ေဆာင္ေနၿပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို အဲဒီကၽြန္းကို ပို႔မယ္အစီအစဥ္ကို ရပ္တန္႔ဖို႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖဲြ ႔ေတြ က ေတာင္းဆုိေနေပမဲ့လည္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရက ဒီေန႔မွာ စတင္ပို႔ေဆာင္လိုက္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Cox’s Bazar ေဒသမွာရွိတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြထဲက ဦးေရ ၁,၆၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို တင္ေဆာင္ထားတဲ့ ဘဂၤ လားေဒ့ရွ္္ေရတပ္သေဘၤာ ၇ စင္းဟာ ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းကို ဒီေန႔ မနက္ပိုင္းမွာ ထြက္ခြာခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ သေဘၤာ ၂ စင္းကေတာ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ အစားအစာေတြ နဲ႔ တျခားလိုအပ္တဲ့အရာေတြကို တင္ေဆာင္ၿပီး ထြက္ခြာသြားပါတယ္။

Cox's Bazar က ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ Bhasan Char ကၽြန္းေပၚ စတင္ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕

VOA

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

03 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2020

 

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို ဘတ္စ္ကားနဲ႔ Bhasan Char ကၽြန္းဆီ ပို႔ေဆာင္တဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၀၃၊ ၂၀၂၀)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံက ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြမွာ ေနထုိင္ေနၾကတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္ဆလင္ေတြကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ အစိုးရက Bhasan Char ကၽြန္းကို စတင္ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေနၿပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက Cox’s Bazar ေဒသက ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြမွာရွိတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြထဲက ၄၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္း ကို ပို႔ဖို႔အတြက္ ဘတ္စ္ကား ၁၀ စင္းထက္မနည္းနဲ႔ တင္ေဆာင္ၿပီး စစ္တေကာင္းဆိပ္ကမ္းကို ဒီကေန႔မွာ စတင္ပို႔ေဆာင္ခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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).