Dhaka sends Rohingya to remote island
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are in Bangladesh after fleeing a crackdown by the Myanmar army in 2017. – EPA pic, May 4, 2020.
BANGLADESH has sent a group of Rohingya said to have spent weeks at sea to a remote island in the south, amid calls from the United Nations that they be given refuge. “A group of 29 Rohingya refugees was taken to Bhasan Char Island on Saturday after being rescued by Bangladeshi law enforcers, who found them floating in the Bay of Bengal,” an official with the Bangladesh Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission told the Anadolu agency on condition of anonymity.
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