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Rohingya who want to go to Bhasanchar in Noakhali are voluntarily withdrawn from the crowded refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Around 100 Rohingya families have already arrived at the transit and university point in Ukhia Kutupalong. The number of Rohingya at these points is increasing by the minute, the Rohingya there said. On Wednesday (December 2) afternoon, 26 members of five families from the Shamlapur Rohingya camp in Teknaf voluntarily arrived at the Ukhia transit point in the afternoon to go to Bhasanchar. Also on Thursday (December 3), the Rohingya were seen ready to go to Bhasanchan by leaving the camp. They are scheduled to begin their journey from Ukhia College’s temporary transit ghat in two parts to Bhasanchar tonight.
Nowsher Ibn Halim, representative of the Refugee Aid and Repatriation Commissioner and official of Teknaf Shamlapur Rohingya Shibir (CIC), said: I don’t know when or where they will be taken from there. ‘
However, a senior government official, who did not want to be named, said: “Some Rohingya have left the camp willing to go to Bhasanchar voluntarily.” They have been kept at the transit point and on the university grounds in Kutupalanga, Ukhia. On Thursday, the Rohingya are likely to be taken to Chittagong for safe transportation to Bhasanchar. Later, they will be delivered to Bhasanchar from there.
Meanwhile, while visiting the Shamlapur refugee camp in Teknaf, it was seen that some Rohingya families had arrived at the camp manager’s office (CIC) with their belongings. There, interested officials speak to them. The leaders of this camp were present at that time.
Salamat Ullah, a Rohingya, said he had heard that they would depart for Bhasanchar on Thursday from the Kutupalong transit point in Ukhia. This Rohingya from Teknaf Shamlapur said: ‘I used to lead my family fishing in the sea. Now I go to Bhasanchar from the camp in the hope of a better life. I sold my old house and my belongings to a neighbor for eight thousand rupees. The first one will take us to the Ukhia transit point from now on. Later you will take to Bhasanchar via Chittagong. Especially here life was very difficult. So I will go there with my wife and children hoping for a better life. We go of our own free will.
Another Rohingya woman named Sharmin Akter (20) said: ‘It will be very good from here to Bhasanchar. So we agreed to go to Bhasanchar with the whole family. Also, we had a meeting at the CIC office at this camp on November 30th. There, it is said, those who are willing to go to Bhasanchar should prepare. The journey to Bhasanchar will begin on Thursday, for which our preparations have been completed. As a result, we have already sold all the old furniture, including the house. Seeing a better life, I agreed to move there. The sailors are talking about giving us land to cultivate with our houses. Family members have come to visit after receiving the news that we are leaving. If it’s good after we go there, relatives will agree to go too. I have heard that a total of 26 families are going to Bhasanchar from all this camp. ‘
Noakhali Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration and Crime) Deepak Jyoti Khisa said: “A portion of the Rohingya from Cox’s Bazar refugee camp will surrender to Bhasanchar tomorrow-Thursday (Thursday-Friday). We are also prepared in the same way.
Abul Kashem, head of the Shamlapur Rohingya camp in Teknaf, said that five families from his camp had voluntarily left the camp for Bhasanchar on Wednesday afternoon. Those involved in the transfer took them by bus to the Kutupalong transit point in Ukhia. Several more families are expected to be evacuated from their camp on Thursday.
Meanwhile, concerned officials said they had completed all preparations to start handing over 2,500 Rohingya from 350 families who are willing to go to Noakhali Bhasanchar in the first week of December.
Recently, the Additional Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Armed Police Battalion (APBN) Mosharraf Hossain said that the Rohingyas would be handed over to Bhasanchar on December 3-4. As a result, 222 new 9th and 2nd APBN police officers, including officers, have been deployed there to carry out their security duties. They will be involved in the housing project to be built there for now.
The APBN IGP further said that 30 APBN members were already serving in Bhasanchar. His plans for Bhasanchar have already been sent to the police headquarters.
Earlier, the Additional Commissioner for Refugee Relief and Repatriation (RRRC), Mohammad Samchu-Dauja, said that the process of handing over some Rohingya families to Bhasanchar was in its final stages, as they had voluntarily agreed to go there. They will be taken there on instructions from the authorities. However, he did not agree to discuss it on Wednesday.
More than seven and a half lakh Rohingya took refuge in Bangladesh on August 25, 2016 due to continued attacks, persecutions and killings by the Myanmar military. Previously, large numbers of Rohingya had taken refuge in Bangladesh at different times. At present, their number is at least 11 lakh. The government of Bangladesh, with the help of the United Nations and other countries, has set up camps in Ukhia and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar and given them shelter, but has always demanded that Myanmar return them. The government is trying to create strong international pressure in this regard. Even then, the government is thinking about the humanitarian benefits for the Rohingya who have taken refuge.
In this situation, to keep the Rohingya safer from the crowded camps in Ukhia and Teknaf, the government has taken the initiative to build a self-financed refugee camp on Bhasanchar, an isolated island in Noakhali, and send them there. At least one lakh of Rohingya will be able to live in the Bhasanchar refugee camp.
Rohingya leaders are known to have been recently brought to Bhasanchar and shown the island and the infrastructure built there. Back at the camp, many of these leaders expressed different opinions. However, many Rohingya living in squalid slums are showing interest in taking refuge in Bhasanchar and arguing among themselves. Several Rohingya leaders have also shown a positive attitude towards their people by going to Bhasanchar. After that, at least 300 Rohingya families came to the Refugee Aid and Repatriation Commissioner’s office step by step and expressed their interest in moving to Bhasanchar. Since then, the government has continued to take effective measures to send them there.
However, this group of Rohingya is not going to Bhasanchar for the first time. In early May, a total of 307 Rohingya, including women and children, returned to Bangladesh in two phases after unsuccessfully trying to reach Malaysia by sea. The government has kept them in Bhasanchar to prevent coronavirus infection.
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