Today, Tuesday, a group of Rohingya refugees (between 700 and 1,000 people) will be transported to the Bhashan Char island from Chittagong.
More than 1,000 Rohingya refugees were taken to Bhashan Char island on December 4th, prompting an outcry from the UN and NGOs.
Authorities say the Bhashan Char project is ready to receive as many as 100,000 Rohingyas.
The UNhuman rights have called for an independent assessment of the conditions at Bhasan Char – The refugees are among more than 750,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar in 2017 following a military-led crackdown that the UN has said was executed with genocidal intent.
They joined some 300,000 Rohingyas, who had fled decades of violence in the Rakhine state before and had been living in Cox’s Bazar.
More than 1.1 million refugees are now living in Cox’ Bazar
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