{"id":117386,"date":"2021-08-22T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117386"},"modified":"2021-08-27T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T23:37:19","slug":"bangladeshs-ashrayan-3-project-bhasan-char-project-is-an-example-for-the-whole-world-to-deal-with-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/22\/bangladeshs-ashrayan-3-project-bhasan-char-project-is-an-example-for-the-whole-world-to-deal-with-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh\u2019s Ashrayan-3 Project (Bhasan Char Project): Is An Example For The Whole World To Deal With Refugees?"},"content":{"rendered":"

MD Pathik Hasan<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Image\nsource: Internet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nwhole world saw the Rohingya refugee\u2019s influx towards Bangladesh in 2017. The\nRohingya people have been displaced from their homeland (Rakhine in Myanmar) by\nthe Myanmar military Junta regime. Then, Rohingyas take shelter in Cox\u2019s bazar\narea in Bangladesh. Bangladesh gives them shelter temporarily based on\nhumanitarian ground. But this temporal assistance has brought disaster for\nBangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\na consequence, Bangladesh faces a serious crisis and threat for this problem. Local\nunrest amongst people, huge economic burden, deforestation, illegal drug\ntrades, human trafficking, prostitution in the region are increasing for this\nrefugee crisis day by day. Some miscreants tried to take some advantages\nutilizing the problem as an opportunity. Deradicalization process by some\nextremist groups in the camps in Cox\u2019s bazar, increasing of crime rate are some\nissues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cox\u2019s\nbazar region is a hilly area. Landslide is a very common incident in Cox\u2019s\nbazar. Rohingya\u2019s faced serious threat from this landslide, flood etc. For this\nreason, Bangladesh govt has taken a holistic approach to deal refugees. The\ngovernment has taken a great initiative called \u2018Ashrayan-3\u2019 for temporary\nhousing of one lakh Rohingya people. Under this project, government-built\nshelter houses in its Noakhali\u2019s Bhasanchar. Ashrayan is a Bengali term. It\nmeans giving shelter to anyone. Bangladesh has already sheltered I million\nRohingya refugees. The Bangladesh government has completed it very\nsuccessfully. Millions of people may be affected by landslides and flood at any\ntime where Rohingyas are in Cox’s Bazar. From a social, physical and\ninfrastructural point of view, Bhasanchar is safer for Rohingyas than their own\ncountry. But it must be temporal. They have to be repatriated to their own land\n(Rakhine, Myanmar)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About\n1 million Rohingya have been sheltered in the densely populated refugee camp in\nCox’s Bazar for three years. The government has taken initiative to send about\none lakh Rohingyas to Bhasanchar from there. In order to protect 40 sq km area\nfrom tides and tidal surges, 13 km long dams and infrastructure of 120 cluster\nvillages suitable for one lakh Rohingyas have been constructed. The government\nhas rescued more than 300 Rohingya from the sea and taken them to Bhasanchar in\n2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile\nthe Rohingya delegation was taken to see the island for the purpose of\nrelocating about one lakh Rohingyas to Bhasanchar. Returning from Bhasanchar,\nthe Rohingya leaders of the delegation gave an idea about the Bhasanchar Asylum\nProject for the Rohingyas sheltering in the Cox’s Bazar camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nRohingya delegation was impressed by the hospitality in Bhasanchar. The\nRohingyas visiting Bhasanchar said that so far, they have seen that the\nBangladesh government has not failed to do better for the Rohingyas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nexcellent planning, keeping all the great arrangements, with utmost care and\nhard work, Bhasanchar has been made by arranging almost all the facilities of\nmodern life. After the ‘complete completion’, various media outlets have\npublicly suggested that Bhasanchar is a hundred times better than the way large\nnumbers of Rohingyas live in the 34 makeshift camps in Ukhia and Kutupalong in\nCox\u2019s bazar. On November 16, 2021, a delegation of 32 officials from 22 NGOs\nvisited Bhasanchar and described it as ‘very beautiful and livable’. Already 40\nRohingya leaders (majhis) have been brought back into government management to\ngive other Rohingyas an idea about Bhasanchar. The electronic media is\npublishing one after another positive news about Bhasanchar and trying to give\nan idea about the overall situation of Bhasanchar and the various facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ngovernment has spent about 3,900 crore Bangladeshi Taka to implement Bhasanchar\nproject by controlling all standards of UN refugee management. All this is the\nmoney of the people of this country. What is not in this Bhasanchar? It is built\non an area of \u200b\u200b40 square kilometers in an area of \u200b\u200babout 13 thousand acres. 120\nclusters, 1440 cluster sheds have been constructed in a very well-planned\nmanner four feet high from the ground. Each shed has 12 houses. Each house has\n16 rooms. Each room has two beds with two floors. A family of four members will\nget one room each. According to UN standards, each refugee must have at least\n36 square feet of space in the format of the international refugee system. But\nthere is more space for everyone than that. In addition to the dormitories,\nschools, mosques, hospitals, playgrounds, wide roads, light houses, solar\nsystems, food storage warehouses, towers of three mobile phone operators,\nsewerage systems, super shops, saloons, day houses have been built for the\nRohingyas to live a modern and better life. -Care center, hat-bazaar system,\ncommunity center and a permanent police station for round-the-clock law\nenforcement for overall security. Jetties have been built to transport goods\nand people. Apart from government assistance, cattle and buffalo rearing,\npoultry farming, fish farming, pigeon rearing, fruit farming, dairy farming,\nhandicrafts and sewing machines are also provided to support the livelihood and\neconomic activities of one lakh Rohingyas. Various arrangements have been made.\nThere are many facilities waiting in Bhasanchar for Rohingyas. Now it is high\ntime to shift Rohingyas to Bhshan char from Cox\u2019s bazar region temporarily for\ntheir better life. But ultimately, they have to repatriate to their motherland,\nRakhine because they are the citizens of Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\nmedia reports that Rohingyas don\u2019t want to take shelter in Bhashanchar.  But that is not true. One reason for this is\nthe ignorance about Bhasanchar and the lack of adequate information. According\nto the Office of the Commissioner for Refugee Relief and Repatriation in\nBangladesh, 3,446 Rohingyas were relocated to Bhasanchar on December 4 and 29.\nThen on January 29, 1,006 people were taken to Bhasanchar in the first part of\nthe third phase and on January 30, 1,463 people were taken to Bhasanchar in the\nsecond part and in the fourth phase, on February 15 and 16, 3,020 people\nreached there in two groups. On March 2 and 3, in the sixth phase, 13,623\nRohingyas, including 4,018, have started living in Bhasanchar. All of them were\nrelocated voluntarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nUN delegation visited Noakhali Bhasanchar and expressed ‘satisfaction’ in March\n18, 2021. The group’s representatives responded after inspecting the island’s\nchar and its infrastructure for three days in a row, closely monitoring it, and\ntalking to Rohingyas who have gone there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nUN delegation inspected the infrastructure in Bhasanchar and talked to the\nRohingya. The UN delegation repeatedly met with the Rohingyas in Bhasanchar and\ntried to find out whether they had been forcibly repatriated from the refugee\ncamps in Cox’s Bazar. However, the Rohingyas assured them that they had come to\nBhasanchar voluntarily and no one had forced them to do so. Asked why they came\nhere, the Rohingyas said they wanted a better life from the crowded refugee\ncamp in Cox’s Bazar, which they are currently enjoying in Bhasanchar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhasanchar,\na Rohingya sanctuary, has set an example for the world, said Vulcan Bazkir,\npresident of the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations, visiting Dhaka. Such\nan initiative for refugees is commendable. Bangladesh has also set an example\nof how to deal with refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis true that Bangladesh is the example for the whole world in case of dealing\nwith refugees properly. Where many states in the world have failed, Bangladesh\nhas shown everyone how to deal with refugees properly based on UNO\narrangements. Rohingyas, International organizations, international financial\ninstitutions, NGOs, INGOs, International community, world media should support\nand provide assistance for Bangladesh in this regard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer: MD Pathik Hasan, Dhaka based NGO worker and Freelance writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MD Pathik Hasan Image source: Internet The whole world saw the Rohingya refugee\u2019s influx towards Bangladesh in 2017. The Rohingya people have been displaced from their homeland (Rakhine in Myanmar) by the Myanmar military Junta regime. Then, Rohingyas take shelter in Cox\u2019s bazar area in Bangladesh. Bangladesh gives them shelter temporarily based on humanitarian ground. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-md-pathik-hasan","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}