Bangladesh starts head count for Rohingya relocation

Bangladesh authorities have began a census of Rohingya refugees living in the country's southeast as part of a controversial move to relocate them to an uninhabited island, officials said today.

The government statistics officers fanned out in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar district to count the number of refugees who have fled persecution in Rakhine state in neighbouring Myanmar.

"Initially we'll make a list of families of Myanmar nationals who are living in the camps and outside, then we'll do the head count," said Wahidur Rahman, an official of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

He told

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