Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar resist plan to be relocated to island.

Kyodo News⁺

23rd April, 2019
By Zahiduzzaman Faruque,

DHAKA - Bangladesh is facing a dilemma over the planned transfer of thousands of Rohingya Muslims crowded into makeshift camps along the country's border with Myanmar to an uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal.

To ease social, economic, environmental and internal security hazards, the government plans to relocate nearly 100,000 Rohingya refugees from the camps in Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Char, which is about 1 hour by motor boat from the nearest shore.