BHASAN CHAR
- The site where Bangladesh has begun sending Rohingya refugees from the over crowded camps at Cox’s Bazar, is an island formed by sedimentation (char is Bengali for sediment) close to the coast.
- Bhasan Char is less an island and more mudflat, and is vulnerable to going under water from tides and flooding.
- Much of it is submerged during the monsoon.
- Located near the mouth of the river Meghna where it flows into the Bay of Bengal, Bhasan Charsur faced only in 2006 from the sediment deposited by the river.
- A Google Earth view shows part of its sedimentation underwater
- Located close to the much larger Sandwip, Bhasan Charspans 40sq km.
- The government has built shelters, hospitals and masjids.
- According to media reports, construction of the concrete accommodation began in
November 2017 at an estimated cost of 23.12 billion taka ($272 million) - Myanmar, which does not recognise Rohingya as an indigenous group and refers
to them only as Bengalis - Discrimination against the Rohingya continues in Myanmar
- With up to a million Rohingya outside Myanmar, and voting called off in Rakhine
state, where a lakh Rohingya still live, even those eligible could not vote. - Nominations of Rohingya candidates were rejected for not being able to prove citizenship.
- ASEAN, of which Myanmar is a member, has been unable to address the crisis.
- The grouping operates on the basis of non-interference.
- Bangladesh, which has done more than any other country for the Rohingya, believes it is within its rights to bypass UN concerns at there location to Bhasan Char.
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