Govt orders restrictions on entry to Bhasan Char UNHCR indicates engagement in island Diplomatic Correspondent | Published: 00:14, Jun 03,2021
The government on Wednesday ordered restrictions on entry of outsiders to Bhasan Char for maintaining isolation of the island for Rohingya people. ‘Bhasan Char is an isolated island. There will be no scope for any illegal business. We have ordered measures to keep it isolated. Anybody willing to go to it would require taking prior permission,’ said cabinet committee on law and order head AKM Mozammel Huq at a press briefing after a meeting at the home ministry on Wednesday. He said that the police, the Border Guard Bangladesh and the Coast Guard were asked to enhance surveillance in and around Bhasan Char where around 18,000 Rohingya refugees were relocated from Cox’s Bazar.