Bangladesh has recently relocated more than 1,600 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char and is planning to send an additional 3,500 refugees to the island by this week.
In an interview to Anadolu Agency, the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen praised the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her “decisive action” to relocate Rohingyas from over sprawling Cox’s Bazar refugees camps. He said the PM decided the plan “to avoid deaths and accidents due to landslides and other untoward incidents in the overcrowded hilly areas of Kutupalang.”
He also expressed that, the new home (Bhasan Char) will “provide a better living for the time being” and will keep the refugees away from “drug trafficking” and “flesh-trade” which led to the deterioration of law and order in refugee camps recently.
Although many international human rights organisations urged Bangladesh to hold the relocation plan before any feasibility studies by international experts, the country didn’t halt the plan.
