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Bangladesh starts fencing Rohingya camps

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Bangladesh's refugee commissioner Mahhbub Alam Talukder confirms that construction has begun but declines to comment further.

The refugees are already forbidden to leave the camps although their sprawling nature means authorities have been unable to police all their movements.

The move to construct barbed-wire fences has been condemned by Rohingya leaders who said they would create a"panic" among the Rohingya. "The Bangladesh government shouldn't turn Rohingya refugee camps into open air prisons. Barbed wire and guard towers should be reserved for criminals, not people who fled Myanmar to escape from mass atrocities," Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a comment to AFP.

 

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