By Ruma Paul, Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall
DHAKA/BHASAN
CHAR/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladesh is racing to turn
an uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island into home for 100,000
Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar, amid
conflicting signals from top Bangladeshi officials about whether the
refugees would end up being stranded there.
Bangladesh
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Monday that putting Rohingya on
the low-lying island would be a "temporary arrangement" to ease
congestion at the camps in Cox's Bazar, refuge for nearly 700,000 who
have crossed from the north of Myanmar's Rakhine state since the end of
August last year.
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