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Kumira point on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in dilapidated condition that may cause accident any time. This picture was taken on Wednesday.

25 Jul 2014, 12:00 am0

For Rohingya, Bangladesh’s Bhasan Char ‘will be like a prison’

HRW News :Bangladesh authorities say they will soon start relocating over 100,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal. Officials said this is necessary to reduce pressure on the world’s largest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, where nearly 1.2 million Rohingya have fled to escape military atrocities in Myanmar.Bhasan Char is a spit of land made of accumulated silt. Officials say the island has been secured with embankments, and the homes and cyclone shelters...

17 Mar 2019, 12:00 am