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Bangladesh begins transfer of Rohingya to controversial island

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At least 10 buses carrying more than 400 Rohingya refugees are leaving the refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar region, heading for the port city of Chittagong, from where they will be transferred to what the UN and rights groups worry is a dangerous low-lying island prone to cyclones and floods. IMAGES

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