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*** 11-Oct-18 World View -- Bangladesh continues plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Bangladesh continues plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island
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Bhasan Char island (Reuters)
Bangladesh last week again postponed plans to begin relocating 100,000
Rohingyas from refugee camps on the Burma (Myanmar) border to the
remote island of Bhasan Char in the Sea of Bengal, about an hour's
boat trip from the mainland. However, planning and implementation is
continuing, and a new start date announcement is expected soon.
Today, there are over one Rohingyas living in refugee camps near Cox's
Bazar in Bangladesh -- the world's largest population of stateless
people, not citizens of Burma, not citizens of Bangladesh. The
Buddhists in Myanmar have been incredibly successful in committing
almost complete genocide and ethnic cleansing, though they're still in
second place this century, behind the genocide and ethnic cleansing
being committed by Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Since 2011, Burma's mostly Buddhist security forces have been
committing mass atrocities on mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingyas living in
Rakhine State, in what the United Nations says is "a textbook example
of ethnic cleansing," and which some Western governments are calling
genocide. The atrocities by Buddhist security forces include gang
rape, violent torture, execution-style killings and the razing of
entire villages, in a scorched earth campaign. Myanmar's genocide is
reminiscent of the Buddhist on Buddhist genocide that occurred in
Cambodia in the late 1970s, under Pol Pot. Burmese Buddhist leader
Aung San Suu Kyi has become the 21st century Pol Pot.
In August 2017, Rohingya terrorists took revenge by killing several
Burmese security forces in attacks against 30 Burmese police outputs.
Using this attack as an excuse, the Buddhist Burmese army began
conducting massive slaughter and atrocities against the Rohingyas,
causing hundreds of thousands to flee across the border into
Bangladesh.
The refugee camps around Cox's Bazar have been extremely crowded, and
are subject to large mudslides during monsoon season. When refugees
started arriving several years ago, the Bangladeshis initially
welcomed them with sympathy, but have been getting increasingly
resentful.
The plan to relocate 100,000 refugees to the island of Bhasan Char was
originally proposed in 2015, but it has been postponed several times.
In the most recent attempt, prime minister Sheikh Hasina was scheduled
on October 3 to officially open newly-constructed shelters for the
refugees on Bhashan Char, but the announcement was postponed again.
Finance Today (Bangladesh) and Daily Star (Bangladesh) and Quartz (27-Feb)
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**** The island of Bhasan Char - 'floating island' - rose from the sea 20 years ago
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Infographic: Construction on Bhasan Char
Bhashan Char, which means "floating island" in the Bengali language,
emerged from the sea about 10-20 years ago. It was formed in the last
20 years by silt from Bangladesh’s Meghna River.
According to some reports, half the island goes underwater every time
there's a full moon, and 60% of the island is underwater during a
monsoon.
So Bangladesh's navy has fast-tracked construction of shelters and
water barriers. Each shelter will be a metal-rooted brick building,
raised on pylons, to house 16 families. Each family (4 people) will
be allotted a 3.5x4 meter room for sleeping, with bathrooms and
kitchens down the hall. There will be solar panels on the roof, and
water filters below deck.
Chinese and British engineers are building a 13 km embankment, with
the entire habitable area surrounded by a wall 2.47 meters high. An
offshore structure will protect the structures from the waves.
The construction is only partially complete, which is probably
the reason for the latest postponement.
Many NGOs are objecting to plan to transfer 100,000 refugees to Bhasan
Char. Human Rights Watch gives the following reasons: 1) it is not
sustainable for human habitation; 2) it could be seriously affected by
rising sea levels and storm surges; 3) it likely would have very
limited education and health services; 4) it would provide extremely
limited opportunities for livelihoods or self-sufficiency; 5) it would
unnecessarily isolate refugees; 6) the Bangladeshi government has made
no commitment to allow refugees’ freedom of movement in and from
Bhasan Char; 7) it is far from the Myanmar border; and 8) the refugees
have not consented to move there.
Nonetheless, construction on the island is continuing, and Bangladesh
will probably announce a new relocation date soon. Dhaka Tribune/AFP (18-Sep) and Reuters (22-Feb) and NewsClick (24-Feb) and Human Rights Watch
Related Articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Myanmar, Burma, Buddhists,
Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, Cox's Bazar,
Bay of Bengal, Bhasan Char, floating island, Meghna River,
Cambodia, Pol Pot, Aung San Suu Kyi
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Bangladesh continues plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island
- The island of Bhasan Char - 'floating island' - rose from the sea 20 years ago
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**** Bangladesh continues plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island
****
Bhasan Char island (Reuters)
Bangladesh last week again postponed plans to begin relocating 100,000
Rohingyas from refugee camps on the Burma (Myanmar) border to the
remote island of Bhasan Char in the Sea of Bengal, about an hour's
boat trip from the mainland. However, planning and implementation is
continuing, and a new start date announcement is expected soon.
Today, there are over one Rohingyas living in refugee camps near Cox's
Bazar in Bangladesh -- the world's largest population of stateless
people, not citizens of Burma, not citizens of Bangladesh. The
Buddhists in Myanmar have been incredibly successful in committing
almost complete genocide and ethnic cleansing, though they're still in
second place this century, behind the genocide and ethnic cleansing
being committed by Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Since 2011, Burma's mostly Buddhist security forces have been
committing mass atrocities on mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingyas living in
Rakhine State, in what the United Nations says is "a textbook example
of ethnic cleansing," and which some Western governments are calling
genocide. The atrocities by Buddhist security forces include gang
rape, violent torture, execution-style killings and the razing of
entire villages, in a scorched earth campaign. Myanmar's genocide is
reminiscent of the Buddhist on Buddhist genocide that occurred in
Cambodia in the late 1970s, under Pol Pot. Burmese Buddhist leader
Aung San Suu Kyi has become the 21st century Pol Pot.
In August 2017, Rohingya terrorists took revenge by killing several
Burmese security forces in attacks against 30 Burmese police outputs.
Using this attack as an excuse, the Buddhist Burmese army began
conducting massive slaughter and atrocities against the Rohingyas,
causing hundreds of thousands to flee across the border into
Bangladesh.
The refugee camps around Cox's Bazar have been extremely crowded, and
are subject to large mudslides during monsoon season. When refugees
started arriving several years ago, the Bangladeshis initially
welcomed them with sympathy, but have been getting increasingly
resentful.
The plan to relocate 100,000 refugees to the island of Bhasan Char was
originally proposed in 2015, but it has been postponed several times.
In the most recent attempt, prime minister Sheikh Hasina was scheduled
on October 3 to officially open newly-constructed shelters for the
refugees on Bhashan Char, but the announcement was postponed again.
Finance Today (Bangladesh) and Daily Star (Bangladesh) and Quartz (27-Feb)
****
**** The island of Bhasan Char - 'floating island' - rose from the sea 20 years ago
****
Infographic: Construction on Bhasan Char
Bhashan Char, which means "floating island" in the Bengali language,
emerged from the sea about 10-20 years ago. It was formed in the last
20 years by silt from Bangladesh’s Meghna River.
According to some reports, half the island goes underwater every time
there's a full moon, and 60% of the island is underwater during a
monsoon.
So Bangladesh's navy has fast-tracked construction of shelters and
water barriers. Each shelter will be a metal-rooted brick building,
raised on pylons, to house 16 families. Each family (4 people) will
be allotted a 3.5x4 meter room for sleeping, with bathrooms and
kitchens down the hall. There will be solar panels on the roof, and
water filters below deck.
Chinese and British engineers are building a 13 km embankment, with
the entire habitable area surrounded by a wall 2.47 meters high. An
offshore structure will protect the structures from the waves.
The construction is only partially complete, which is probably
the reason for the latest postponement.
Many NGOs are objecting to plan to transfer 100,000 refugees to Bhasan
Char. Human Rights Watch gives the following reasons: 1) it is not
sustainable for human habitation; 2) it could be seriously affected by
rising sea levels and storm surges; 3) it likely would have very
limited education and health services; 4) it would provide extremely
limited opportunities for livelihoods or self-sufficiency; 5) it would
unnecessarily isolate refugees; 6) the Bangladeshi government has made
no commitment to allow refugees’ freedom of movement in and from
Bhasan Char; 7) it is far from the Myanmar border; and 8) the refugees
have not consented to move there.
Nonetheless, construction on the island is continuing, and Bangladesh
will probably announce a new relocation date soon. Dhaka Tribune/AFP (18-Sep) and Reuters (22-Feb) and NewsClick (24-Feb) and Human Rights Watch
Related Articles:
- Genocide of Rohingyas in Burma (Myanmar) appears to be almost complete (27-Aug-2018)
- Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities by Buddhists targeting Muslim Rohingyas (04-Feb-2017)
- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
- Generational history of Burma (Myanmar) (26-Sep-2007)
- Burma's (Myanmar's) leaders may be inspired by Pol Pot's Cambodian 'Killing Fields' genocide (29-Sep-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Myanmar, Burma, Buddhists,
Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, Cox's Bazar,
Bay of Bengal, Bhasan Char, floating island, Meghna River,
Cambodia, Pol Pot, Aung San Suu Kyi
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