Joint forces led by Bangladesh Army detained over 600 Rohingyas outside of the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals camps at Palongkhali Union under Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Sunday.
Ukhiya police station officer-in-charge Nur Ahmed said that they were living in several places in the Palongkhali union under the shelter of Bangladeshis.
‘We have urged all Rohingyas to return to camps ahead of the elections. We feared that many would engage in criminal activities, including creating chaos during the forthcoming national elections,’ the OC said.
He said that they were yet to identify how many of them were registered with joint registration of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner.
RRRC top official Mohammed Mizanur Rahman said that around 1,000 Rohingyas were staying in the Palongkhali union either taking shelter from Bangladeshis or building houses on forest land giving some money to officials.
‘In the past 2.5 years, over 1.5 lakh Rohingyas entered into Bangladesh from Myanmar. Although we have taken their eyerish in the system, but we could not provide home for all of them,’ he added.
He said that Rohingyas were still entering Bangladesh daily.
In August 2017, around eight lakh Rohingyas crossed into Bangladesh to save their lives from a military crackdown in Rakhine State, Professor Yunus mentioned, saying that Bangladesh now hosted around 13 lakh displaced Rohingyas, including 32,000 annual newborns in the camps.