Rohingyas Stage Protest Against Living Conditions On Bangladesh Island
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Police said the protest that involved up to 4,000 Rohingya refugees, coincided with an inspection visit by officials from refugee agency UNHCR.
Several thousand Rohingyas staged "unruly" protests Monday against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the mainland, police said. Since December, Bangladesh has shifted 18,000 out of a planned 100,000 refugees to the low-lying silt island of Bhashan Char from the Cox's Bazar region, where some 850,000 people live in squalid and cramped conditions. Most of them had fled a brutal military offensive in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 that United Nations (UN) investigators concluded was executed with "genocidal intent". Monday's protest involved up to 4,000 people, police said, and coincided with an inspection visit by officials from the refugee agency, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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