Government bars people from visiting Bhashan Char

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Bangladesh Army will install barbed wire fences around Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to ensure security. The government has announced that people will be barred from unnecessarily visiting Bhashan Char. However, NGO workers or other officials who work there will not come under the purview of the decision.

Additionally, the Bangladesh Army will install barbed wire fences around the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to ensure that refugees do not leave their camp and join the local community.

The decisions were taken at a meeting of the national committee for coordinating, managing and maintaining law and order of Rohingyas on Wednesday at the secretariat.

Following the meeting, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said: “We have noticed that some curious people have started visiting Bhashan Char. I would like to announce through you [journalists] that such curious people have to refrain from going to Bhashan Char.”

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“If anyone needs to go there, they can go. But people should not crowd Bhashan Char unnecessarily. We have taken this decision at the meeting,” the minister said.

The government recently shifted two batches of Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char. More Rohingyas will be shifted to the island gradually.

Barbed wire fences around Rohingya camps

Earlier in February 2020, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said barbed wire fences would be installed around the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to prevent the refugees from leaving their shelters.

At Wednesday’s meeting, the committee finalized a decision to construct the barbed wire fences around the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to increase security.