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The boats left Chittagong Boat Club, RRB and the Coast Guard dock after 10:15 a.m. Friday, Navy Lieutenant Commander MKZ Shamim said.
The Rohingya were taken to the Ghumdhum transit camp near the Kutupalong camp in Ukhia on Wednesday night for relocation to Bhasanchar. Dozens of buses gathered on the campus of Ukhia Degree College.
On Thursday, those buses carried a total of five convoys to Chittagong from Ukhia.
There was tight security by the RAB, police and law enforcement agencies in front of and behind the buses carrying the Rohingya.
After arriving in Chittagong, they were kept overnight in the BAF Shahin School transit camp at BAF Zahur Ghat.
On Friday morning, six of his navy and an army ship were picked up to take them to Bhasanchar. They are all sitting on the deck of the ship.
Navy officials said 1,019 Rohingya luggage were delivered to Bhasanchar on Thursday on two ships.
Eight more ships of the Navy and Coast Guard are going to Bhasanchar with this convoy.
Two years ago, the government planned to relocate a portion of the 1.1 million Rohingya living in and out of Cox’s Bazar refugee camp to the island of Bhasan Char in the Meghna estuary near Hatiyar.
At a cost of Taka 2312 million rupees with the government’s own funds, the infrastructure of 120 clustered villages has been built on the 13,000 acre area and accommodated more than one lakh people.
More than 300 Rohingya who had not returned to Malaysia were rescued from the sea and brought to Bhasanchar earlier.
Then, on September 5, a delegation of Rohingya from the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp was sent to Bhasan Char to visit.
After their return, some Rohingya expressed interest in moving to Bhasan Char, according to government officials.
However, several international organizations, including the UN refugee agency, have distanced themselves from the government’s initiative.
The United Nations said in a statement Wednesday that it had no involvement in the government’s plan to evacuate the Rohingya.
The statement also called on the government to ensure that the Rohingya are able to make independent decisions on all issues.
“The United Nations has not been involved in the preparatory process for this relocation, nor in the process of identifying refugees,” he said. The United Nations does not have enough information about the transfer process in general. “
Human Rights Watch (HRW) also issued a statement on Thursday calling for an end to the relocation of Rohingya to Bhasanchar.
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