Bangladesh may ‘force’ 100,000 Rohingya to resettle on uninhabited island | World News, The Indian Express

Bangladesh may ‘force’ 100,000 Rohingya to resettle on uninhabited island | World News, The Indian Express

By Deutsche Welle |Published: September 3, 2019 3:40:51 pm

Bangladesh may ‘force’ 100,000 Rohingya to resettle on uninhabited island

Having fled deadly violence, over a million Rohingya refugees live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh. DW gained exclusive access to the remote, cyclone-prone island where the government intends to relocate them.B

Rohingya children and refugees raise their hands and shout that they won’t go back to Myanmar during a demonstration at Kutupalong near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

On an early morning in late August, the sun had yet to burn through the clouds that spanned the horizon, heavy with the monsoon rains that batter Bangladesh every summer.