A tour through the ‘floating island’ that 100,000 Rohingya refugees may have to call home

ABC News(BHASAN CHAR, Bangladesh) — Miles off the coast of Bangladesh, deep within the Bay of Bengal, is a low-lying, flood-prone island that the Bangladeshi government hopes to be the new home for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled violence in neighboring Myanmar. It’s called Bhasan Char, which translates to “floating island.” …

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