{"id":72658,"date":"2021-01-28T03:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=72658"},"modified":"2021-01-31T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T14:43:17","slug":"bangladesh-to-move-thousands-more-rohingya-muslims-to-remote-island-despite-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/72658-bangladesh-to-move-thousands-more-rohingya-muslims-to-remote-island-despite-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh to move thousands more Rohingya Muslims to remote island despite criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo5231125847493161265-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo5231125847493161265-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo5231125847493161265-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo5231125847493161265-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo5231125847493161265-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo5231125847493161265.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh will move 2,000-3,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal this week, a navy officer said on Wednesday, despite complaints by rights groups concerned about the site&#8217;s vulnerability to storms and flooding.<br>Bangladesh has relocated about 3,500 of the refugees from neighboring Myanmar to Bhasan Char island since early December from border camps where a million live in ramshackle huts perched on razed hillsides.<br>Bhasan Char emerged from the sea only two decades ago and is several hours by boat from the nearest port at Chittagong. The Rohingya, a minority group who fled violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, are not allowed to move off the island without government permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Most probably, they will be taken to Chittagong tomorrow and the next day, they will be sent to Bhasan Char from there,&#8221; Navy Commodore Abdullah Al Mamun Chowdhury told Reuters.<br>Bangladesh justifies the move to the island saying overcrowding in the camps in Cox&#8217;s Bazar is leading to crimes.<br>It also dismisses concerns of floods, citing the construction of a 2-metre (6.5 feet) embankment for 12 km (7.5 miles) to protect the island along with housing for 100,000 people, as well as facilities such as cyclone centres and hospitals.<br>Its actions, nevertheless, have attracted criticism from relief agencies that have not been consulted on the transfers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government says the relocation is voluntary but some refugees from the first group that went there in early December have spoken of being coerced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh will move 2,000-3,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal this week, a navy officer said on Wednesday, despite complaints by rights groups concerned about the site&#8217;s vulnerability to storms and flooding.Bangladesh has relocated about 3,500 of the refugees from neighboring Myanmar to Bhasan Char island since early &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,30],"tags":[164,1811,46],"class_list":["post-72658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-world","tag-bangladesh","tag-criticism","tag-rohingya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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