What do Rohingyas think about Bhashan Char?

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''The displaced Rohingya population prefers living in the cramped and squalid refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, rather than living in a potentially better-sheltered and relatively more comfortable facility on Bhasan Char. The Bangladesh government is almost at the final stage of relocating 100,000 Rohingyas who were forcefully driven away from their land in a Myanmar army crackdown. However, the unwillingness of the Rohingyas to relocate to the remote island is delaying the relocation plan. Construction has already been carried out at Bhasan Char, previously known as Thengar Char, a river island which emerged twenty years ago at the mouth of the Meghna River. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to formally inaugurate the housing complex on the flood- prone isolated island soon...''

Creator/author: 

Sushanto Biswas

Source/publisher: 

Dhaka Tribune

Date of Publication: 

2019-01-29

Date of entry: 

2019-01-29

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  • Individual Documents

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Geographic coverage: 

    • Myanmar and Bangladesh

Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

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text

Text quality: 

    • Good