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By AFP<\/p>\n
The Bangladesh government continued its efforts to send thousands more Myanmar Rohingya Muslim refugees to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal despite safety concerns raised by the International Red Cross, as the cyclone season looms on the horizon.<\/p>\n
With the Bangladesh navy putting the finishing touches to a 5.75 meters (19 feet) high storm wall around Bhashan Char, authorities have delayed the departure of 4,200 of the Muslim-minority Rohingyas to the island this week because of bad weather.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh has been praised for the way it has welcomed 1 million Rohingya who have fled military crackdowns in Myanmar into camps along the border in recent years.<\/p>\n
However, the government has faced doubts about its plan to send 100,000 Rohingya to the 53-square-kilometer silt island that did not exist two decades ago.<\/p>\n
The Bay of Bengal cyclone season starts in days and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) expressed concerns after\u00a0a team of experts went to the island<\/a>.<\/p>\n Up to 20 major storms hit the region each year and 700,000 people have been killed in cyclones in Bangladesh in the past five decades.<\/p>\n “With the cyclone season fast approaching, people on Bhashan Char could become stranded with a shortage of food when major storms strike,” said Sanjeev Kafley, head of the IFRC delegation in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n Kafley said any storm could cut the sea passage to Bhashan Char, “in turn denying the delivery of relief, medicines and other vital supplies.”<\/p>\n The IFRC said its mission found improved infrastructure on the windswept island but called for “urgent investment” to bolster protection for women and children as well as food supplies, health care and schooling.<\/p>\n