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Rohingya refugees walk to a naval vessel to be transported to Bhashan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, from Chittagong, Bangladesh
BANGLADESH relocated 1,642 Rohingya refugees to an island in the Bay of Bengal today.
Bhashan Char is an island formed by silt from the Himalayas that only rose from the sea 20 years ago and has never been inhabited.
Though the Bangladeshi navy has built flood protection embankments, houses, hospitals and mosques on it and insists it is now safe, human rights organisations have raised fears it could still be submerged by an unusually violent storm and called on Dhaka not to proceed with the move.
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