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on the move again bangladesh relocates hundreds of road to a remote island despite protests from human rights groups and their safety be guaranteed and why is there still no permanent solution to the refugee crisis this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. 3 years ago nearly a 1000000 rohingya escaped to bangladesh when me and more us military launched what the un called a textbook case of ethnic cleansing many sought shelter in the world's largest refugee camp at cox's bizarre now their lives are being uprooted again bangladesh

is government has moved a 2nd group of nearly 2000 to a remote island rights groups a bus on char is unsafe because it's prone to floods and cyclons but the government insists the new camp will improve the refugees lives as they'll have homes markets and schools for 100000 people to your child he reports from the port city of chittagong. around 800 running a refugee is boarded navy vessel in the port city of chittagong in southern bangladesh there been sent to passion charter island where 1600 of their fellow refugees were relocated earlier this month. and his wife who have a young child don't know what to expect so i will say. most are saying things are fine of a day we are going because government told us the facilities are good over there and so we are following their advice no one really pressured us to go there himan rights group have question whether the island is safe and can withstand natural

disaster and floods and whether the refugees were forced to go there against their will. the un who the international community and the various governments and the diplomats and doc are all looking to actually take on this assessment are just not being allowed to go there. struggling to find a long term solution to the running a crisis more than a 1000000 are living in the world's largest refugee camp at cox's bazaar after fleeing man march in 2017 during a military crackdown the government is now looking to some of them elsewhere this is the 2nd batch the 1st batch run on december for the government is determined to relocate at least 200000 refugees to this remote coastal iran despite opposition from rights groups and even the un for any rowing are worried about how safe the island. people who are willing to go there also knows the risks involved so

why are they going there i would never go because i'm afraid but the commander of bangladesh navy in chittagong is confident everything will be ok government has taken up the project. 3 years back before taking up this project in our financial. and it is a study has been carried out by international from nowhere in the world any government as such that the projects that in my knowledge. this is not something that. we believe that my government will take them back to their families and build them. with no means to earn a living and a congested living condition at cox's bazaar summering a refugee has decided to take the chance. that is not even about it life is hard in the camp and it's difficult to earn a living there they said they will provide us with better living facilities and

means to end a living 3 years on rohingya refugees are increasingly frustrated they don't have a voice in the decision making process and feel their fate and destiny is at the marcy of fathers of a child 3 al-jazeera chittagong. all right let's bring in our guests joining us from vancouver is rowing activists yasmeen ola in colombo sad how the south asia campaigner at amnesty international who focuses on bangladesh and dr mbia privy and is chair of the european were here counsel and co-founder of the right medics organization bangladeshi government representatives declined our invitation invitation to appear on the program welcome to you all yes i mean let me start with you today bangladeshi officials in the bangladeshi government have said repeatedly that there are not going to be any transfers to bus and char unless they are voluntary unless the refugees are willing to go what are you hearing about that do you believe those claims do you think that there are refugees who have been coerced to go if you heard that from any of the

refugees you've been speaking with. unfortunately yes i am hearing a lot of reports around. not entirely coercion but. very stiff in tactics that are used in order to convince people to relocate to bus and char a lot of those have to do with promises of food rations or promises of better life promises of resettlement in a 3rd country in the cases that government allows for the refugees to get exit permit or to get a day's designation as refugees in terms of you know being identified as such as we all know that it's it is not the ways that upon with government is terming ring you're right now we are called the you know displaced in myanmar nationals. and all

of this is very problematic in various different ways some reports that i've heard was that once the family or people that. agree to go. their houses would be wiped away and they would not be able to have access to those places that they used to live in. some have to do with financial monetary value. and a lot of times when we look at this i want us to to look at this as an imbalance of power one is a refugee you know group of people that are actually in dire situations there hasn't been enough food rations to go around at least for the past few months and that has put a lot of strain on the mental health the physical health and the various different ways of you know their their outlook to the world. and obviously that presents a lot of urgency in changing in you know doing things very differently and so it's

much easier for peace. to be convinced in that sense when they are vulnerable themselves signed amnesty international has collected evidence has collected testimonies from refugees that you've spoken with who have indicated that there are refugees that have been either coerced or were or forced to go have you not. there are 2 phases to it so before the relocation happened about 2 weeks before that amnesty international interviewed refugees who have been on the list for relocation and resigned then as early as november and among them amnesty international interviewed refugees who said that the shelters were damaged and when they went to the camp authorities to have them fixed they were suggested to relocate to the island instead. this one woman who said that her husband has been on the island since may and that you're aware that there's been about 300 roaming

the refugees who've been moved to the island when they came back after being stranded in the sea for months and so her husband has been there since may and she felt that he would not be able to come back to the mainland and cups of bazaar and she felt that it is better to reunite with her husband on the island because being a single parent and the mother of a son she was not able to cope up at the time and when honesty spoke to her and she felt that it's better to relocate but in the anecdotes that i'm sharing with you it does look like it's it's more of a compulsion rather than a choice that that some of these refugees have chosen to go to the island it's not the standard definition of voluntary decisions that we understand and this is telling from a lack of transparency in the participation process or the consultation process whichever you choose to recognise as with the ruling the refugees as well as the

humanitarian actors who have been supporting bangladesh with managing the refugees in a protracted refugee situation where you have the international community extending the support and it is very much required that the international community shares their responsibility to support bangladesh with managing such a large number of refugees it's important that there is a due process. followed in order to ensure that they're refugees safe they're protected and they're able to return to their homes in myanmar and save one tree in dignified conditions and sustainable conditions as well without violating the principle of non-development but this is not an exception for relocation within the country as well and particularly when we're talking about this relocation to russian char there is a lack of clarity in terms of how voluntary this decisions have been simply because there is no policy framework that outlines the participation of routing the

refugees in the decisions that affect them. bangladesh's government has said repeatedly that the facilities on these islands will provide a much better life for the refugees than they have in the camps in cox's our which has become the world's largest refugee settlement what have you heard about how life on the island is i mean bangladesh of bangladesh officials have said there's going to be schools there's going to be supermarkets you know they're going to have access to medical care there's going to be cell phone towers how concerned are you about what conditions on the island are going to be like and what have you heard from refugees who have been relocated there. thank you for having me here. with our other panelists i would like to advise that you know. and its government has been our long lived friend who was almost there for us who has given us shelters refugee their future to us and then also him in jail and they're always

there for us and they knew what we wanted and our mean. solution core solution of the wind up light but on the other side what they have done right now they don't really look ation they have been talking about it since 2018 it is not a new but due to the international pressure and plea from their highgate said to the government they have taken this step which has hurt us said and also it said tragedy and but on the other side the can understand the battle of this government and its public that you know it's a it's a sign to the international community and the frustration it has been almost like after the last exit doors 3 us right now there is no pressure to the myanmar government and there's also lost in syria to from the government of myanmar to departed these people saw the bangladesh government has no other choice because

it's being our smallest country in the wars poorest country of the world how can the to cure of this one fund 1000000 people and the other side on that for the last 3 years as i've said you know that there has been north single partition with the fluid in mind set a very question so they had to take that action and we have spoken the r c the european writer council has been context specially after this room bilocation as we have talked to the people i spoke to the people from the baton to island and within the caucus bazaar there are 50 camp and majority of them it's not one entry you know and as you know that. since a prison may have been 300 wind gusts had been rescued who were trying to go to malaysia they were sent back to the cold with 19 and the last is below this government has cut into these $200.00 girls and women and children and men by saying that they will be build big rejoining with their people with their relatives

to cox bazaar after staying for 2 weeks which does not have happened and not only that they have evidence as we have seen the us we have seen the already us that these there were some some of those were making us fly because they were not happy staying over there they said they had no facilities at all there were no education there were no hospitals there were no facilities members but an education and all the stuff and suddenly the government is telling us that there will be some livelihoods which we are not aware and if the government is so the bangladesh government it is really so sincere and so transparent why are they not alone they you and yesterday also there was a tweet from the special to put who would like to go to the to this button to island and assess and the press and see what's going on so we don't know exactly what is going on the air we have heard but let us see and watch but it was as long as i would like to say it's it's it's a sadness what has happened it's

a tragedy for these one noble people who are continuously traumatized you know and then the m.p.'s really do have so i'm sorry to interrupt you what i want to pick up on a point you were making ask me and i'll get back to you about the point you were making just a few minutes yasmeen you know you heard on the other talk about the sheer magnitude of the refugee crisis in cox's bazaar you're talking about more than 1100000 rohingya refugees you know i've been to those camps many times in the past it's really hard to explain to people just how densely packed they are and how horrific the conditions are because a lot of people just can't understand unless they've been there you and i have spoken about this. for but i want to get to the point that bangladesh's government has said that they're going to transfer up 210-0000 refugees to char that number you know when you compare it to the number of people in cox's bizarre is that really going to be able to alleviate pressure in the camps is that really going to

be able to help the conditions in the camps if only 100000 people are transferred to this island and you still have over 900000 people refugees in these camps. i think it's this is a problem of. issues that are intertwined in so many different ways. when we look at the framing of all of these issues we often are fixated on the actions that are being carried out rather than why those actions or when the actual driving forces of those actions in the 1st place in this case the actions carried out by the nation state bangladesh. there are often much much more going on behind the scene specifically you know the hate rhetoric that are rising within bangladesh politics and political landscape there has been more or more news pieces

more opinion pieces that are being written in racial icing and other rising we're seeing there are you know there are mobilization of the local community of you know accusing rank stealing jobs or you know working 80 percent of the staff being ring of people themselves in in the ring in response there are also you know issues around human rights defenders being silenced and being surveilled by the intelligence agencies of the bangladeshi government as well as you know one of the amateur photographer was actually arrested without charges and he's still being detained to this to this point past 24 hours and this is this is by bangladeshi standards illegal all of this is to show that there are real concerns around. you know putting away and actually making sure the bringing

are out out of sight out of mind. in a sense that it responds to the political cries or the. or you know the demands that are rising within the country but also you know it really isn't answering the larger question of how to manage or how to actually plan for the sustainable solutions in not just repatriating ringgit because that's not going to happen we all understand that that burma is actually adamant about not accepting or admitting that it has actually committed genocidal crimes or mass across it is at at that so in fixing in trying to find superficial answer to the to their questions we see these attempts and they are desperate it's not just the reflection of the failure within the management by the shia government eased

a collective responsibility and it is the establishments and institutions actors that are involved you many to see are the international community center actually not ensuring the you know the safety net for both of us your government hence why we're seeing these the sort of attempts but also yes maybe's a penalising i guess i'm sorry i don't mean interrupt you here we are starting to run out of times i want to get to side as well and pick up on a point you were making too because so i mean was talking about you know the responsibility of international actors the responsibility of the u.n. you know you've said many times dams international said many times that the international community must do more to ensure you know safety of the ring and also to make sure that the conditions are being created so that they can some day return to me and more in a safe and dignified manner are we any closer to seeing that happen. a culturally not and i'm afraid we must also recognize the fact that bangladesh has been host to

this 1000000 ruling the refugees for the last 3 years these refugees have been living in cramped conditions in the camps in cox's bazaar. it is not the most livable standard that anyone would aspire and no one wants to live or live in a situation like this away from their homes there is definitely that desire that someday they will be able to go back to their homes we have interviewed the roaming the refugees many times in the camps and we we've heard those responses that we want to go back to our homes when it's safe when our rights are recognized when we are given the are given the citizenship that's that's a right for every individual in there in the country but those. those conditions are not not there yet in myanmar and the violence that has been documented by rights organizations including amnesty international in myanmar are as recent as this years under the circumstances i am afraid to say that there is no clear ground

to to sort of go for a repack relation at this time and there's no clarity of when this can happen until there is a guarantee that those human rights safeguards put in paper by the authorities in myanmar the accountability and short in terms of the crimes that have been committed because you and i and all of us here understand that that iraq have gone through horrific crimes and have led those to come to bangladesh and live in a situation a dire situation that no one wants to live and under the circumstances we're seeing that develops your priorities are now as part of a plan to decongest the camps are going to relocation to an island but this this relocation itself i think would be more transparent with this participation process guaranteed through. policy framework which is not something we're seeing at this time and yet i'd like to conclude that and. come back.

you were referring in your last answer to you know the issue of health care for refugees and you know i wanted to pick up on another aspect of that in the past couple of weeks i've been speaking to refugees in cox's bazaar and a lot of them are telling me that you know one of the things that they're experiencing right now is a sort of a retrial event because there are so many who are afraid that at some point they might be compelled to go to boston char and they're afraid that they will have to go there and uproot themselves once more and they say that's really another form of trauma for them to live through compared to all the other trauma they've lived through up until now so i want to ask you when it comes to mental health care for inger refugees do they have access in those camps is there enough mental health care you know to help them with the severe levels of p.t.s.d. that they have experienced these past few years and all the other forms of trauma that they have lived through. mr jim joe as you said you know. us have been

suffering from daily stress and all of us are almost traumatized or having the post-traumatic stress disorders and due to this from the last x. of those the people who are living inside the camp and even also in our country you know we have been with this repatriation relocation some other issues are coming in all the time something or the other had been almost put us in a process. from a size and so this kind of things right now which is not really not a transparent it's in one entry disprove location it's also traumatizing and there are not enough there are not enough a counseling centers or the other centers which are really a man for the intensive patients wards so there is not enough and beside that we can never ever heal heal and due to the lack and plus this is

a tremendous pressure from the bush government. with the relocation you know and also close with. the stress factors we are daily facing so this is very important that the bangladesh government and the international community whenever they do something they should be very fragile with these people because they are the ones who are the werner of. genocide survivors they have been traumatized they are going to lots of stress factors they list just factors and they are not getting the proper psychosocial support so that's right it is very difficult you know and this time to do it tameka is them and it should be at an alarming point for the for the international community and for the ballot is meant to to handle these people therefore it is very much important that it should be a $1.00 and $3.00 and a relocation it should be. you say it should be i mean according to vision and

it should be i transferred into all right well we have run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all our guests yes mino la saad how muddy and doctor and be a privy in and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website of 0 dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me but i am a gentleman the whole team here i found out. discovered

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