Rohingya on Bangladesh island feel trapped, fear monsoons: HRW

Human Rights Watch interviews 167 Rohingya refugees and says they were moved ‘without full, informed consent’.

Rohingya refugees moved to a Bangladesh island fear they will be exposed to terrible conditions during the upcoming monsoon season, and are struggling with “inadequate” health and education facilities, a Human Rights Watch report said. About 18,800 refugees have been moved from the Cox’s Bazar region – where approximately 850,000 people live in squalid and cramped conditions after fleeing Myanmar – to the low-lying silt island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal. A spokesman for the prime minister’s office told the AFP news agency that another 80,000 Rohingya would be moved to the island soon.