Arakan News Agency
Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Mohammad Shahriar Alam said the number of Rohingya Muslims in his country reached 900,000.
He said the figure is about half a million people counted during the last wave of displacement. He pointed out that tens of thousands of Rohingyas in Bangladesh had not been registered with the United Nations for decades, and that only 33,000 Myanmar refugees had been placed on the lists of United Nations organizations.
The minister added that Bangladesh has become the largest gathering point for this minority in the world, compared to their number in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia and other countries.
Bangladesh, on the other hand, transfers about half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees to dozens of camps in Cox’s Bazar where they hopes to have greater control over the growing number of refugees.
The refugees will be relocated to the new camp, called Kutubpalong 2, which is far from the main road from Cox-Bazar to Kotobalong and equipped with aid distribution areas, prayer mosques and a number of basic health care centers.
“The presence of all the refugees in one place contributes to the organization of the distribution of aid and monitoring of the situation,” said Sarwar Salam, head of the camp.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar to Bangladesh last month after a military campaign and Buddhist militias in Myanmar called the United Nations genocide.
