Cox's Bazar: The Rohingyas of Myanmar have set up a 'sacrifice market' in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in the style of Rakhine State. The Bali Bazaar, built inside the Balukhali Rohingya camp in Ukhia Upazila, sells crores of taka every day.

From gold ornaments to buying and selling, there are clothes, cosmetics, mobiles and various types of electronics. The government is not getting any revenue even if it is bought and sold for crores of taka. The administration says the Rohingya shops will be evicted in stages.

Eviction campaigns are going on especially in gold shops, mobile and computer shops. According to the Rohingya, Balibazar is located northwest of Maungdaw in Rakhine. The market is located in the interior of Myanmar, 5 km east of the Naikhyangchhari Ghumdhum border in Bangladesh.

Apart from the Rohingya, this bali bazaar is the main buying and selling market of the local Maghs. The Myanmar government collects crores of kyat of revenue every year from Balibazar. The Rohingyas have formed Balibazar, a little west of Panbazar in Balukhali. There are no Bangladeshi traders in this market. Although Bangladeshi traders set up shop in this market, Rohingyas do not buy anything from that shop.

Rohingya traders said that the traders who had shops in Rakhine, Myanmar, have set up shops in Balibazar. Rohingya businessman Mohammad Faisal had a clothes shop in Balibazar. She moved to Bangladesh in 2016 out of fear for her life.

The army looted all the goods in his shop. Later they took shelter in Balukhali Rohingya camp in Ukhia. Now he has built a huge textile business in the style of Myanmar. There is now a huge cloth market on the land owned by the local Gafur Uddin. His shop sells and buys over 10 lakh taka every day.

Rohingya businessman Abdur Rashid said he had a shoe shop in Balibazar, Myanmar. And now he has set up a similar shoe shop in Balukhali's Balibazar. Customers from far and wide flock here as Myanmar is known as the Bali Bazaar of Bangladesh. In this case no revenue has to be paid.

Not only Faisal and Abdur Rashid, there are hundreds of traders like them in this Bali Bazaar. The buyers of this market are also Rohingyas. No Bangladeshi can do business here. Because, Rohingyas buy and sell with Rohingyas due to regionalism. However, the shopkeepers who are doing business in this market have to continue their business with Rohingya employees. The same is true of gold shops.

If there are no Rohingya employees in the shop, there is very little buying and selling. For this they are forced to keep Rohingya employees. Not only Bali Bazaar in Balukhali, but also gold shops have been set up illegally in various alleys across the entire Rohingya camp. Billions of taka of smuggled Myanmar gold are sold in these gold shops.

Mufiz Uddin, a local resident of Balukhali in Ukhia, said, 'We are very helpless because of the Rohingyas. We can't do any business in the camp. All the Rohingyas are gone. We locals do no shop but Rohingyas do not come to us.

So many businesses trade off now. We also have to go through a lot of hardships to do business in the market as the Bali Bazaar is being built here in the name of Bali Bazaar in Myanmar. 'Keshab Dhar, a gold trader from Balukhali in Ukhia, said, Myanmar gold is being sold in these shops. The Rohingyas do not want to take the best gold made in Bangladesh.

Shamsu Douza Nayan, Additional Commissioner, Cox's Bazar Refugee Relief and Repatriation Office, said, “The gold shops in the Rohingya camp are under the administration's scrutiny. Several shops have already been evicted. More evictions will be made, it is ongoing. '