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STORY: UNHCR / ROHINGYA RELOCATIONS
TRT: 02:25
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / BENGALI
DATELINE: 19 JUNE 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
19 JUNE 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
1. Wide shot, new shelters being built
2. Various shots, workers building new shelters
3. Wide shot, refugees arriving to new site carrying belongings
4. Wide shot, humanitarian staff providing orientation
5. Wide shots, refugees at orientation
6. SOUNDBITE (Bengali) Md. Nur Alam, Father:
“We felt really good coming here. Before, we lived on a slope. The hills were breaking apart and one broke onto our shelter. Mud entered our house. Now we have come here. Now I’m feeling really good to see the houses here. Now, we will live happily here.”
7. Tracking, families are taken to their new homes, while porters bring their belongings
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Cussigh, Senior Field Co-Ordinator, United Nations High Commissioner for refugees:
“Some of the families we talked to since their move to this new site; they were very happy, very satisfied. They expressed their satisfaction that the shelter is better than what they had before. They feel safer compared to where they were before.”
9. Wide shot, plastic sheet being laid on shelter floor
10. Tracking, Aziz Fatima being taken to her new shelter
11. Med shot, Aziz Fatima inspecting new shelter
12. SOUNDBITE (Bengali) Aziz Fatima, Mother:
"I like this house very much. There is no hilly slope. The house is strong and its already built.”
13. Pan left, families at their new shelters
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said it has helped relocate the first Rohingya refugee families, along with its partners, to newly-developed land in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee site, the largest in the world.
UNHCR said the new land located in in the Camp 4 extension of Kutupalong has taken months of intensive engineering work to ready, including flattening hill to make it suitable to relocate families. The relocated families had either been displaced as a result of landslides during last week's monsoons or face high risk from landslides. UNHCR said around 42,000 refugees are at high risk of landslides and need to be moved to safer grounds. UNHCR urgently called for more flat land to help move those whose lives could be at risk with some 200,000 refugees at high risk both of landslides and floods
Heavy monsoon rains in the previous week have made several roads impassable by heavy vehicles and refugees have had to walk by foot. UNHCR said, with a break in weather, it started to move the refugees to safety.
As part of a multi-agency project, involving UNHCR, IOM and WFP, the land was developed, and hills flattened to prepare for the relocations. UNHCR said it and its partners are still installing services and building more shelters so that more families at high risk of landslides can be moved to the site. It added that the extension can accomidate up to 15,000 people when fully developed.
