Crime, violence on the rise in Rohingya camps

Internal feud among Rohingya groups is intensifying in different refugee camps in Cox's Bazar district, which has claimed lives of at least 60 Rohingyas since the 2017 refugee influx.
"Criminal gangs and militants are increasing their grip on Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, committing killings and abductions with "impunity"," International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a new report published in April 25, 2019.
Cox's Bazar police book said besides murder, six cases of rape, 68 narcotics-related cases and 142 cases related to robbery, riot and different types of petty offences have been filed in Ukhia and Teknaf police stations in last one year.
All these offences were perpetrated in the refugee camps and according to
police more than 500 of them have been indicted in these cases and 122 Rohingyas have been arrested so far.
To strengthen security there police department installed seven new police camps in the 30 Rohingya refugee camps and deployed two battalions of armed police there but things are still out of control.
The Rohingya groups are also getting involved in crimes like drug and human trafficking, hijacking, and gang robbery in the different camps and its surrounding areas, such rapid growth of criminal gangs and their unrestrained activities is not unknown to the local administration. Assistant Superintendent of Police Shahidul Islam, DSB, Cox's Bazar says.
Bangladesh police said the creation of seven new police posts, the deployment of armed police and better intelligence had improved security there, "The report is exaggerated but not baseless. It is true violence in the camps has increased," Cox's Bazar district police spokesman Iqbal Hossain said.
To maintain law and order in refugees camps Bangladesh Army established a home grown system there, it engaged a Majhi (Camp leaders) to see a group of 100 families. In each block, a majhi usually leads a group of around 100 families
These majhis again select a block head and chairman to lead several blocks of the refugee camp.
Professor Dr Tareque Shamsur Rahmanr a teacher of International Relations said that the Bangla speaking Rohingyas are a great threat for Bangladesh in near future, we need to take immediate measure to shift them to Bhasanchar and other islands for the betterment of the country.
"We need more active foreign policy to deal with Rohingya issue as we observed that Russia and China will never play a positive role for us to dissolve the issue, so this is the right time to negotiate with them in proper manner," the teacher told this correspondent.
"We need to create security barrier there to maintain law and order but at the same time we need to take immediate measure to repatriate them to their home land," former diplomat Humayuan Kabir Bhuyun told the Daily Observer.
He said to send one lakh Rohingyas to the Bhasanchar is not at all a solution, it is a partial solution, what will happen with the other nine lakh Rohingyas, he asked.
Dr Mohammad Abul Kalam, Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) says, "There are more than a million people of all types in less than a 12- square mile area. Conflicts and petty offences will be inevitable in this condition."