UN News
25 March 2021Migrants and Refugees
UN News
25 March 2021
They feared for their relatives still in Myanmar and worried about the prospect of ever returning home.
Rohingya refugees prepare to board a ship as they move to Bhasan Char island near Chattogram [Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera]
FRANCH 24
Four Bangladesh navy ships on Tuesday took the second and biggest group
of Rohingya Muslims yet from crowded refugee camps to an uncertain
future on a bleak island three hours from the mainland.
The government insisted that the 1,800 refugees, who have been in camps since fleeing a Myanmar military clampdown, want to start new lives on Bhashan Char, where 1,600 others arrived earlier this month.
But rights activists expressed new doubts about the transfers. They said some Rohingya had their shanty homes in the camps on the Myanmar border padlocked so they had no choice.
The Bangladesh government
eventually wants to rehouse 100,000 of the camps' approximately one
million Rohingya on the island, which takes the full force of cyclones
that roar across the Bay of Bengal each year.
Veena Thoopkrajae
Bangkok
Mon 28 Dec 2020
Activists say the island of Bhasan Char is not safe and that the refugees are being moved against their will
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will move a second group of Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, officials said, despite calls by rights groups to stop the relocation on safety grounds
WFP
Situation ReportSource
21 Dec 2020
864,281 Rohingya refugees in the camps*
(52% children, 45% adult, 3% older persons and 1% persons with disability)
113,157 household (570,000 people) in the host community received assistance through the COVID-19 special support programme from April to November 2020.
Highlights
• WFP currently has nine operational Fresh Food Corners at e-voucher outlets and inkind distribution points and provided fresh vegetables to over 99,000 vulnerable Rohingya refugees in November.
• WFP conducted environment and social safeguard screenings of 115 community workfare schemes and 18 camp-wide tree maintenance sites to ensure that planned activities will not have an adverse impact on ecosystems and communities.
AFP, Kutupalong
December 17, 2020