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A total of 1,604 Rohingya will voluntarily leave the crowded refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar for Bhasanchar in Noakhali on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, they have reached Chittagong.
Previously, on December 4, 1,842 Rohingya went to Bhasanchar Island in the Bay of Bengal in the first phase of relocation from the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp.
The Rohingya departed for Chittagong from the Ukhia Degree College grounds in Cox’s Bazar starting at 12:15 pm Monday. Previously, interested persons brought them from different camps by bus and completed temporary one-off activities on the Ukhia Degree College grounds.
According to various government sources, Rohingya from different camps were brought to Chittagong from the Ukhia Degree College grounds in three stages until yesterday afternoon. At 12:15 pm, 595 Rohingya departed for Chittagong in 13 buses in the first phase, 539 in 11 buses in the second phase and 60 in 15 buses in the third phase from the Ukhia College grounds to Chittagong.
Eleven shipments and trucks left with Rohingya goods. A total of 1,604 people from 426 Rohingya families will go to Bhasanchar today in the second phase. Arrangements have been made for them to spend the night on the grounds of BAF Shaheen College in Paienen, Chittagong. They will be taken by boat to Bhasanchar in Noakhali at 9am on Tuesday.
Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC), Shah Rezwan Hayat, was contacted but did not speak. However, an official there, who did not want to be named, said 39 buses carrying Rohingyas had left for Bhasanchar in the second phase. However, it is not possible to say how many men and women there are.
Nowsher Ibn Halim, representative of the Commissioner for Refugee Aid and Repatriation and an official from the Shamlapur Rohingya Camp (CIC) in Teknaf, said that 100 Rohingya had voluntarily left the camp for Bhasanchar. In the morning they left the camp for Ukhia. Previously, 21 families went to Bhasanchar from this camp.
He was seen at the scene in the Shamlapur Rohingya refugee camp on Monday morning. At this time his relatives crowded to see. Previously, many of his relatives also went to Bhasanchar in the first phase. After completing the process at the Ukhia transit point and the university’s temporary transit terminal by bus, he left for Bhasanchar. One hundred Rohingya from this camp left for Bhasanchar.
Teknaf Shamlapur said during the trip to Bhasanchar with his family. Jahed Hossain said: ‘Nobody forced us. Of our own free will, we will transfer the whole family to Bhasanchar. Also, those in Bhasanchar said that they are much better. So we go there hoping for a better life.
Abul Kalam, Shamlapur Rohingya camp chief, said that 100 Rohingya from 25 families from his camp had voluntarily left for Ukhia for Bhasanchar. From there you will be taken to Chittagong. They are scheduled to arrive in Bhasanchar on Tuesday morning.
Md. On Bhasanchar’s mobile phone. Ismail, 16, a Rohingya teenager, said: “I came to Bhasanchar on December 4 with my family from the Teknaf Shamlapur Rohingya camp. We are all very well here. The atmosphere here is much better than the camp. This is widely used by members of the Navy who are in charge of security on Bhasanchar Island. They help us all the time. One of my sisters who stayed in the camp kept calling me to come here. ‘
More than seven and a half lakh Rohingya took refuge in Bangladesh after crossing the border on 25 August 2016 in the face of killings and torture by the Myanmar military. More than 1.1 million Rohingya now live in overcrowded conditions in Cox’s Bazar camps, including those who took refuge earlier.
According to official data, the government has implemented the Bhasanchar Asylum Project at a cost of Tk 3,095 crore of its own funds for the relocation of Rohingya. Infrastructure has been built in 120 clustered villages suitable for one lakh of Rohingya. The Bangladesh Navy is responsible for the implementation and management of the entire housing project in Bhasanchar. There are currently 306 Rohingya living there, who returned last May after trying to enter Malaysia illegally by sea.
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