80% fencing around Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps completed

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said that the work of erecting barbed wire fences at 80 percent areas around the Rohingya camps was completed.

“We have asked the law enforcement agencies alongside Bangladesh Army to strengthen patrol and vigilance activities around the Rohingya camps to main law and order strictly,” he said.

kamal made the remarks after the fourth meeting of the National Committee on Coordination, Management and Law Enforcement of Displaced Myanmar Citizens at his ministry conference room here.

He said the Army, BGB and RAB will patrol outside the camps, adding, “If necessary, law enforcement agencies will work in coordination with the army. If the operation is needed, the army will also take part in it.”

Kamal said, “Illegal shops are being evicted inside the Rohingya camps in Ukhia and Teknaf and eviction drives will be continued. The army is being built a barbed wire fence around the Rohingya camps, about 80 percent of which has been completed.”

The home minister said observation towers have been built there, and road construction is about to complete.