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.

UN, Bangladesh sign deal to aid Rohingya relocated to island

Aljazeera
11 Oct 2021

Authorities said another 81,000 refugees would be relocated to the remote Bhasan Char island over next three months. 

Rohingya refugees prepare to board a ship as they move to Bhasan Char island, near Chattogram, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

 

The United Nations and Bangladesh’s government have signed an agreement to work together to help Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal where thousands have been relocated from crammed camps near the Myanmar border.

More than 19,000 Rohingya have already been moved to Bhasan Char island by the government, and the UN said one of the key reasons to sign the agreement was to start serving that population. 

Rohingya relocation: UN positive about Bhasan Char

The Daily Star  

Star Digital Report
April 16, 2021

This file photo showing the aerial view of Bhasan Char shows a portion of the housing facilities that has been built on the island to relocate the Rohingyas from Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Star/File

The UN has expressed its positive attitude on the Bhasan Char project, which is meant to relocate 100,000 Rohingya from the camps in Cox's Bazar.

The UN delegation, which visited Bhasan Char on March 17-20, has already submitted a report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently.

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"Overall, UN is positive about Bhasan Char," a diplomatic source told The Daily Star today.

Don’t worry about Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char: Dhaka to UNHCR

theindepedent 

UNB, Dhaka
10 December, 2020

Bangladesh has conveyed to the UN refugee agency that the international community has no reason to worry about relocation of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations (UN) offices and other international organizations in Geneva Ambassador Md Mustafizur Rahman shared the logical points behind such voluntary relocation during a virtual meeting with UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)Filippo Grandi on Wednesday.

Ambassador Mustafizur said no Rohingya could be repatriated over the last three years due to lact of political will from Myanmar despite Bangladesh’s sincere efforts to send back the Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

U.S. voices concern about Bangladesh's relocation of Rohingya

REUTERS

By Reuters Staff

DECEMBER 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday said it was concerned about Bangladesh’s relocation of 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island and plans to carry out further moves, calling on Bangladesh to accept independent assessments of the move.

The United States also backed the United Nations in calling for any such relocations to be “fully voluntary and based on informed consent without pressure or coercion”, State Department spokesman Cale Brown said in a statement.

Bangladesh naval vessels moved the Rohingya refugees to the flood-prone, remote island in the Bay of Bengal on Dec. 4, despite complaints by refugees and rights groups that some were being coerced.