At least 50,000 newly arrived Rohingyas are now living in Cox's Bazar where the world's longest sea beach is situated. Over 440,000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh since August 25 when Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist monks shot and killed many Rohingyas and set fire to their homesteads in Rakhaine State that the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing.
The government would build a massive refugee camp on 2,000 acres of land (800 hectare) at Cox's Bazar's Kutupalong district, where the 50,000 Rohingya refugees living in Cox's Bazar will be shifted.
Additional Superintendent of Police Afruzul Haque Tutul told the Daily Observer Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar sadar would be sent to Kutupalong soon. Police are continuing drives to shift them to the camp.
According to an Inter Service Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) press release Bangladesh Army had began distributing relief goods while actively participating in rehabilitating Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar on Saturday.
The flow of Rohingya refugees from violence-torn Rakhine State in Myanmar slowed for the last few days owing to bad weather but thousands have started entering Bangladesh again.
The flow resumed on Sunday evening through border points-Anjuman Para and Rahmater Beel-in Palongkhali union in Ukhia upazila, The ongoing influx has already raised the number of the Rohingya to more than 800,000.
At least 10,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh so far since Saturday, said Abdul Gofur Chowdhury, Chairman of Palongkhali Union Parishad.
The mass exodus followed a Myanmar military offensive allegedly targeting ARSA insurgents who attacked military outpost on that day.
Police have recovered the body of a Hindu refugee, allegedly murdered by Rohingya refugees, at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar.
The victim apparently went to the camps to get back the money some refugees took as loan back home in Myanmar.
Police have identified the victim as Rabindra Paul, 42, one of the hundreds of Hindus who have crossed the border into Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar along with hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
The Hindu refugees have taken shelter in an area near the camp for newly-arrived Rohingyas in Kutupalong.
Ukhiya Police Station OC Md Abul Khayer said that Rabindra's body was found in Balukhali canal at Palongkhali.
Police recovered the body in the morning but could not identify him, OC Khayer said. There was no sign of injury on Rabindra's body, but his face was disfigured, he added.
The General Secretary of the Zilla Puja Committee, Babul Sharma, alleged Rohingya refugees killed Rabindra. OC Khayer said police were investigating the allegation.
Meantime, Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that her country was willing to start the verification process "any time" to take back some of the Rohingya refugees.
The big question now is how many of these Rohingya refugees will actually be repatriated to Myanmar and when?
Voluntary return or voluntary repatriation is the return of a displaced person, a rejected asylum seeker, a refugee, a victim of trafficking or a stranded migrant who is unable or unwilling to remain in the host country.
No Rohingya Muslims have voluntarily returned to their homeland after only 92 people from the community were sent back home in the last voluntary repatriation process way back in 2005.
