DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh will next month start moving 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island, officials said Tuesday, despite warnings the silty strip is prone to violent weather. Officials previously said they wanted to start moving refugees from overcrowded camps near the border with Myanmar to the island in June, before the monsoon began. “Initially, 50 to 60 Rohingya families will be relocated in the first phase beginning next month,” said the official, Habibul Kabir Chowdhury. ADVERTISEMENTA navy official told AFP a three-metre-high (nine feet) embankment had been erected around the entire island to make it flood-resistant. We’ll convince them,” said Chowdhury, the disaster official.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 18, 2018 09:42 UTC