UN warns Bangladesh of 'new crisis' over Rohingya relocation plan
2019-03-12 09:26:32 source：The Aljazeera
March 11, 2019
Bangladesh risks creating a "new crisis" for Rohingya refugees if it goes ahead next month with plans to relocate 23,000 refugees to an uninhabited island prone to cyclones, a United Nations human rights envoy has warned.
Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on Myanmar who visited Bhasan Char recently, told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that she was unsure if the Bay of Bengal island was "truly habitable".
She also warned that "ill-planned" relocations without the consent of refugees "have the potential to create a new crisis."
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