Dhaka’s Rohingya relocation plan fails to get UN backing
Bangladesh houses nearly one million Rohingya, including 740,000 who fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017. – EPA pic, November 3, 2019.
BANGLADESH today said a plan to relocate thousands of Rohingya at overcrowded refugee camps to a remote island is “uncertain” after authorities failed to gain support from United Nations agencies. Dhaka had wanted to begin its long-held plan this month to move 100,000 people to the mud-silt island of Bhashan Char, as frustration grows over the presence of the squalid tent settlements in its southeastern border towns.
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