The fourth phase of Rohingya relocation to Bhashan Char began on Sunday morning.
Around 3,000 Rohingyas will be relocated to Bhasan Char from Cox’s Bazar between Sunday and Monday.
The Rohingyas will be transported by bus to first Chattogram, and then to the island, from Ukhia Degree College premises of Cox’s Bazar in several phases.
Shamsuddoza Nayan, additional commissioner at the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission in Cox’ Bazar, confirmed the matter.
He said around 3,000 Rohingyas have agreed to relocate to Bhasan Char.
The Rohingyas have been brought to Ukhia Degree College and Ghumdum transit camps and dozens of vehicles have been kept ready to transport the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to Chattogram, he said, adding that they will be taken to the river island from there.
In the first three phases, around 11,000 Rohingyas were relocated to the river island.
Bangladesh Navy had built shelters in Bhashan Char, a remote island in Bay of Bengal measuring 13,000 acres, for at least 100,000 Rohingyas as well as a three-metre embankment to prevent flooding.
Almost a million Rohingyas have been sheltered in various makeshift camps in the south-eastern districts of Bangladesh. Most of them fled to Bangladesh following a military offensive in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017.
(Source :Online Desk)
