An uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island is in process to turn into home for 1,00,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar.
The government of Bangladesh is reportedly making “temporary arrangements” for these people to the island named Bhasan Char (meaning floating island).
Floating Island, which emerged from the silt only about 20 years ago, is about 30 km (21 miles) from the mainland.
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has cleared that putting Rohingya on the low-lying island would be a “temporary arrangement”
It is to ease congestion at the camps in Cox’s Bazar, which houses nearly 700,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar since August, 2017.