The residents are not allowed to leave their camps without prior permission from the authorities concerned. Despite quite a few check posts from the camps to Cox's Bazar town and beyond, the Rohingyas are sometimes found near Chittagong city, which is roughly 175km away from their places of residence. “We send the Rohingyas we find without authorization back to the camps,” he added. “With our limited personnel and other logistical limitations, it is difficult to ensure that Rohingyas will not leave the camps all together," said a police sub-inspector on duty at one of the 34 Rohingya camps. “We can perhaps stop those who use roads, but we cannot always stop the people who use the hills to get out of Cox’s Bazar,” said another policeman.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 10, 2021 09:00 UTC