Moving refugees to Bashan Char is not a solution to Bangladesh’s Rohingya problem

ARAB NEWS

DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
December 18, 2020

Now that the government of Bangladesh seems finally to have recognized the fact that the Rohingya will be in the country for the long haul, it has started looking for long-term options for managing the huge refugee population.

Authorities in Dhaka are correct that holding more than one million people in cramped conditions at Cox’s Bazaar is not a sustainable solution. But the authorities are wrong to believe that moving some of them to Bashan Char will help to solve the problem.