Rohingya Muslim refugees are sent to remote and deserted islands

More than 1400 refugees set sail for the island of Bhasan Char, the fourth group sent to the island, where the Bangladeshi government plans to eventually move 100,000 Rohingya.
Bangladesh also aims to decongest refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, which shelter approximately 1 million Rohingya.
The relocation began in December and have been criticized by human rights groups who say that many of the refugees are being forced to move against their will.
The government of Bangladesh says the relocation is voluntary. But many refugees have talked about the move as being coerced.
Human rights organizations say the Bangladeshi government use cash incentives, as well as intimidation tactics, to force Rohingya to accept the relocation offer.
Bangladeshi authorities say the relocation is essential to ensure better living conditions for the refugees, and to improve the camps in Cox's Bazar.
As a matter of fact Bangladesh and India were among the countries which, from the beginning, opposed the incoming of these refugees. As a matter of fact, they identify them as terrorists, and they did not give them their rights under international law, and under the humanitarian law, as refugees. And we see that is continuing. They see the Rohingya Muslims as a problem, rather than sort of oppressed people that they need to be supported at this hour of need.
The refugee camp became overcrowded from August 2017 when Rohingya Muslims began fleeing their homes in Rakhine State following waves of attacks by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims were violently uprooted in the months that followed, driven by a brutal military crackdown that killed thousands of them.
What happened in August 2017 was so horrific that the UN called it genocide, and a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Those who survived the brutal killings sought refuge in Bangladesh and neighbouring countries, hoping for a day to return home.
But for now it seems that thousands of them have to go on yet another perilous journey.
Rohingya are the world's most persecuted ethnic minority haunted by the past, and denied a future. A citizenship law in 1982 stripped them of their nationality, making them one of the world's largest stateless communities.
While the Exodus to Bangladesh has ongoing in waves since the 1970s, none was as rapid and massive as the one in August 2017 that turned the spotlight on the Rohingya crisis throughout the world.