Bangladesh pushes ahead with Rohingya relocation plan

Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, are kept under watch by Bangladeshi security officials in Teknaf, December 25, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Bangladesh is pressing ahead with a controversial plan to relocate refugees from the persecuted Muslim Rohingya community in neighboring Myanmar to a secluded island despite international concern.

Bangladeshi officials have for some time been intending to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal in eastern Bangladesh.

According to a government statement late on Sunday, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has sought help from foreign countries and organizations with the relocation plan.

Ali briefed representatives from diplomatic missions and several United Nations agencies to take “meaningful measures” to resettle the refugees. Sixty ambassadors, high commissioners, heads of various diplomatic missions, and officials from UN agencies attended the briefing.

Bangladesh’s relocation idea has sparked an outcry from Rohingya community leaders, and a UN agency has said a forced relocation would be “very complex and controversial.”

‘The refugees have to ultimately leave’

The Bangladeshi foreign minister claimed that the Bangladeshi government plans to build shelters, schools, health centers, mosques, roads, and other necessary infrastructure on the remote island. He said the relocation will take place only after the development work is completed and the island is made habitable.

But he said that Dhaka considers the relocation of the Rohingya refugees as a temporary arrangement and wants the international community to take steps to have them returned to Myanmar, where they are already denied citizenship rights and subjected to abuse.

This image shows Bangladeshi security forces watching over Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, in Teknaf, Bangladesh, December 25, 2016. (By AFP)

Currently, some 300,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh live in mostly squalid conditions in the port town of Cox’s Bazar across border from Myanmar.

The Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar amid persecution at the hands of extremist Buddhists and the military there.

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