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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
A group of around 200 Rohingya refugees huddle on the beaches of a remote Indonesian island, cordoned off by yellow tape meant to stop them running away, after weeks adrift on a wooden boat. IMAGES
Chittagong (Bangladesh), Dec. 28 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Monirul Alam) .- A second group of about a thousand Rohingya refugees was sent to a remote Bangladeshi island on Monday despite criticism from international organizations about the opacity of the process."Our people are working on the site for the relocation," the Secretary, Ministry of Disaster Management and. Relief. Mr. Mohammad Hussain, told EFE, confirming that the second phase of the plan aims to relocate 100,000 refugees to Bhasan Char. FOOTAGE OF ROHINGYA REFUGEES DURING THEIR TRANSFER.
Bangladesh transports more than 1,600 Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island, in the first phase of a controversial planned relocation of 100,000 refugees to Bhashan Char, a silt island that critics say is prone to flooding and in the path of cyclones that frequently wreak havoc in the region. Almost a million Rohingya - most of whom fled a military offensive in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 - live in squalid camps in south-eastern Bangladesh. Any return to Myanmar appears unlikely for now. IMAGES
Nearly 200 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, are stranded on a beach in western Indonesia, with local authorities saying they will not accept the new arrivals. The refugees arrived by boat at 3:00 am local time on Sunday (2000 GMT Saturday), the latest in what has been the largest influx of the persecuted Myanmar minority since 2015. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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