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- 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.
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