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Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said the process of relocating 100,000 Rohingyas from Cox’s Bazar’s refugee camp to Bhasan Char will begin on completion of erecting barbed-wire fences around the Cox’s Bazar camp.

He made the remarks while talking to reporters after attending the Silver Jubilee celebration of Bangladesh Coast Guards at its Agargaon headquarters in the city.

“Bangladesh Army started erecting barbed-wire fences around the Rohingya camps in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar so that they cannot go out of the camp,” he added.

Asked whether surveillance on Rohingyas has become weak, the minister said, “Surveillance on Rohingyas is not weak at all and work to set up watchtowers and close circuit cameras is underway to strengthen the surveillance on Rohingyas.”

The country is currently hosting more than 1.1 million Rohingyas in camps in Cox’s Bazar. Most of them fled here since late August 2017 when Myanmar army and their local collaborators launched a brutal offensive targeting them.