Bangladesh should now think of a long-term future plan to reduce its burden of Rohingya refugees, a UN human rights investigator said, adding that relocating these people to Bhashanchar should not be in haste.

"There should be no rush to relocate refugees, such as before the monsoon season which is one of the possibilities that has been outlined to me. The island's isolation does particularly trouble me, especially in the event of cyclones or other natural disasters," Yanghee Lee, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, said on Friday (Jan 25).

“The government of Bangladesh should share its relocation feasibility study with the UN and consult with Rohingyas before undertaking any such move,” she said.

Lee was speaking at press conference in Dhaka on her trip to Thailand and Bangladesh, where she met officials and Rohingya driven out of western Rakhine state after an army crackdown in 2017.

Since August 2017 some 730,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine to Bangladesh, where they now live overcrowded camps.

The human rights expert expressed her frustration about UN inaction in stopping Rohingya atrocities.

“I don’t see how the UN system, the United Nations, particularly the Security Council let these horrible atrocities committed in front of their eyes goes by,” she said.

It is the inefficiency of the UN system, said Lee who stayed in Bangladesh for a week and visited Cox’s Bazar.

She ruled out any possible repatriation of Rohingya refugees in near future saying, Myanmar did not create a ‘conducive environment’ there.

Not only that, the Myanmar authorities are now trying to get rid of the rest of the Rohingyas, she said.

She said the international community should put more pressure on Myanmar to take back their people before it turns into a regional crisis

About accountability, she said the UN may set up an ad-hoc criminal court to ensure justice and try the perpetrators.

Early in the day, Lee in an interview with news agency Reuters said, " (Military's commander-in-chief) Min Aung Hlaing and others should be held accountable for genocide in Rakhine and for crimes against humanity and war crimes in other parts of Myanmar."