Government says moving refugees to Bhashan Char - whose name means "floating island" - will ease chronic overcrowding in its camps at Cox's Bazar, which hold some 730,000 Rohingya. The UN says the Muslim minority fled mass killings and rapes committed during an army crackdown in Rakhine state since August 2017. "Ill-planned relocation, and relocations without the consent of the refugees concerned, have the potential to create a new crisis," she told the UN Human Rights Council. They took our citizenship, our land, they destroyed our mosques," Mohib Bullah, a Rohingya refugee from the camps who is documenting name-by-name those killed in Myanmar, told the Council. "Myanmar is fully committed to ensuring accountability where there is credible evidence of human rights violations committed in Rakhine State," he said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 11, 2019 14:26 UTC