‘A living death’: Camp conditions push Rohingya to the high seas

Frontier Myanmar
April 10, 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a vessel of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency approaches in waters off Aceh province on March 21. (AFP)

Amid budget cuts and surging crime in the refugee camps in Bangladesh and war in their native Rakhine, more Rohingya are taking a perilous journey by boat to Indonesia and Malaysia, where an increasingly hostile reception awaits.

Rohingya crisis in Indonesia a ‘ticking time bomb’ if political indifference, misinformation continue: analysts

South China Morning Post
Johannes Nugroho
Published: 6 Apr 2024

• Analysts point to social-media disinformation to ‘discredit’ and ‘demonise’ Rohingya refugees in the lead-up to the presidential election in February
• They say the government has not been inclined to counter such narratives, which have stoked paranoia about the refugees and led to conflict
  

Rohingya refugees rest in a temporary shelter at the Indonesian Red Cross Office, after being evacuated from the sea at Meulaboh, West Aceh, Indonesia, on March 22. Photo: EPA-EFE

 

The orange truck crammed with 75 Rohingya survivors of a capsized boat was told to hurry along by Indonesian police in Beureugang, West Aceh, as dozens of angry villagers gave chase, shouting “[we] reject the presence of refugees here!”
Footage of the incident on March 21 was screened by a number of television channels across Indonesia and observers say the growing hostility is nothing new, attributing it to misinformation campaigns and political indifference towards the plight of Rohingya refugees in the country.

Indonesian interest must be considered in Rohingya refugee issue: Govt

ANTARA
April 5, 2024 

Rohingnya migrants get a health check upon arrival at the Meulaboh Jetty Harbor, West Aceh, Aceh, Thursday (March 21, 2024). ANTARA FOTO/Syifa Yulinnas/Lmo/foc.

Banda Aceh, Aceh (ANTARA) - The Aceh Office of Indonesia's Law and Human Rights Ministry stressed that the handling of Rohingya refugees in Aceh must take into account the country's national interest.

No justice, and nowhere to go for the victims of Myanmar’s forgotten genocide

Michael West Media
Indipendent Journalists
by Farah Abdurahman | Apr 1, 2024 

Rohyngya refugee camp. Image: Wikipedia

 The holocaust in Gaza has eclipsed the long-standing genocide of the Rohingya people of Myanmar, 569 of whom died at sea last year alone. Farah Abdurahman reports on the humanitarian disaster and the response of the Australian government.

More than seven years on from the genocide committed against the Rohingya by Myanmar’s military, the group is no closer to peace or freedom.

Unravelling the Rohingya crisis

The Star
Saturday, 30 Mar 2024

Gruelling journey: A file pic of ethnic Rohingya disembarking from their boat upon landing on a beach in Ulee Madon, North Aceh, Indonesia, on Nov 16, 2023. — AP 

A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives.

Rohingya rescued off Indonesia relocated after local anger

CNA
27 Mar 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel approaches in waters some 29km off west Aceh on Mar 21, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Zahlul Akbar)

JAKARTA: Dozens of Rohingya refugees saved after their boat capsized off Indonesia's westernmost coast last week have been forced from their temporary shelter due to local protests, a United Nations refugee agency official said on Wednesday (Mar 27).

11 Rohingya found dead after Indonesia boat capsize: officials

ARAB NEWS
AFP
March 25, 2024

Rohingya refugees hold a morning prayer in a temporary shelter at the Indonesian Red Cross Office, after being evacuated from the sea at Meulaboh, West Aceh, Indonesia. (AP)

•  The head of the local search and rescue operation, Muhammad Fathur Rachman said nearly half-a-dozen Rohingya were found dead at sea 14 nautical miles from shore
  

MEULABOH: The bodies of at least 11 Rohingya refugees have been recovered off Indonesia’s westernmost coast after their boat believed to be carrying around 150 people capsized last week, officials said Monday.

Eleven Rohingya found dead after Indonesia boat capsize: UN

TRT World
March 25'2024 

UN officials say they have recovered the bodies of at least 11 Rohingya refugees who were fleeing from violence-ridden Myanmar on boat. 

Thousands risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys in flimsy boats to cross to Malaysia or Indonesia. / Photo: AFP

The bodies of at least eleven Rohingya refugees have been recovered off Indonesia's westernmost coast after their boat believed to be carrying around 150 people capsized last week, UN officials say.

Six more bodies are found days after a boat of Rohingya refugees capsized off Indonesia

abc News
ByREZA SAIFULLAH Associated Press and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press
March 25, 2024, 

Local authorities say six more bodies of Rohingya refugees have been found at sea off Indonesia after a boat with more than 150 people aboard capsized last week.

The bodies of the six women were found off the coast of Aceh province, search and rescue officials said in a statement. Five bodies were found over the weekend.

အာချေးကမ်းရိုးတန်းမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာရုပ်အလောင်းတွေ ထပ်မံတွေ့ရှိ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
၂၅ မတ်၊ ၂၀၂၄ 

အာချေးကမ်းရိုးတန်းမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာရုပ်အလောင်းတချို့ ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးအဖွဲ့တွေ ထပ်မံတွေ့ရှိခဲ့ (မတ် ၂၃၊ ၂၀၂၄)

ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပတ်က အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ အာချေးပြည်နယ် အနီးမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၅၀ လောက် လိုက်ပါလာတဲ့ သစ်သားလှေမှောက်သွားတာမှာ အနည်းဆုံးလူ ၅ ဦးရဲ့ ရုပ်အလောင်းတွေကို ဆယ်ယူရရှိခဲ့တယ်လို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အရာရှိတွေက ဒီနေ့ပဲ ပြောပါတယ်။

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားကမ်းခြေမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအလောင်း ၁၁ လောင်းပြန်တွေ့

RFA
RFA Burmese
2024.03.25

၂ဝ၂၄ ခုနှစ် မတ်လ ၂၅ ရက်နေ့က အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ၊ အာချေးပြည်နယ် ကမ်းခြေအနီးတွင် တွေ့ရှိခဲ့သည့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ရုပ်အလောင်းတချို့အား ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးအဖွဲ့က သယ်ဆောင်လာစဉ်။ Handout/Basarnas Aceh/via BenarNews

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ အာချေးပြည်နယ် အနောက်ဘက်ကမ်းခြေမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာလှေတစ်စင်း တိမ်းမှောက်ခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ပျောက်ဆုံးနေတဲ့သူတွေထဲက အလောင်း ၁၁ လောင်းကို ပြန်ရှာတွေ့ထားတယ်လို့ အာဏာပိုင်တွေက ပြောပါတယ်။

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားကမ်းခြေမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအလောင်းတွေတွေ့

RFA
RFA Burmese
2024.03.24 

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ အာချေးပြည်နယ် ကမ်းခြေတွင် တွေ့ရှိရသည့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ရုပ်အလောင်းတစ်လောင်းအား ၂ဝ၂၄ ခုနှစ် မတ်လ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့က ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးအဖွဲ့ဝင်များ သယ်ဆောင်လာစဉ်။ Photo: Reuters

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ အာချေးပြည်နယ် အနောက်ဘက်ကမ်းခြေမှာ ရေထဲမျောလာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအလောင်းနှစ်လောင်း တွေ့ခဲ့တယ်လို့ အာဏာပိုင်တွေက ပြောပါတယ်။

Indonesia's rescue of Rohingya refugees at sea is a reminder of an ordeal that began in Myanmar

The Star
Saturday, 23 Mar 2024 

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sleep at their shelter in Meulaboh, West Aceh, on Saturday, March 23, 2024. - AFP

YANGON (AP): A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives.

Indonesia recovers two bodies after Rohingya boat capsizes off Aceh

REUTERS
March 23, 2024

Rescuers carry the body of a Rohingya refugee recovered at sea after the boat they were on capsized off the coast near Calang, Aceh Jaya Regency, Aceh, Indonesia, March 23, 2024, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Syifa Yulinnas via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights

ACEH JAYA, Indonesia, March 23 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities recovered two bodies from the shores of West Aceh on Saturday and said local fishermen reported several other drowning victims washed up after a vessel carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast earlier this week.

More than 70 Rohingya were "presumed dead or missing", which if confirmed would be the biggest loss of life in such an incident so far this year, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. Seventy-five people were rescued.

ACEH JAYA, Indonesia, March 23 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities recovered two bodies from the shores of West Aceh on Saturday and said local fishermen reported several other drowning victims washed up after a vessel carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast earlier this week.

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees capsizes off Indonesia's coast

AP
YAYAN ZAMZAMI and EDNA TARIGAN
March 20, 2024

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday, according to local fishermen who rescued six people. The survivors said more people were still on the boat.

ရေးတွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၇၈ ဦး ဖမ်းဆီးရမိ

လွတ်လပ်သော မွန်သတင်း
March 21, 2024

မွန်ပြည်နယ်၊ ရေးမြို့နယ်၊ ကုလားကုတ်ကျွန်း အနောက်တောင်ဘက်တွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၇၈ ဦး ဖမ်းဆီးရမိသည်ဟု ဒေသခံတို့ထံမှ သိရသည်။

ရေးမြို့နယ်၌ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၈၀ ခန့် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရ

DVB ·
March 21, 2024

မွန်ပြည်နယ်၊ ရေးမြို့နယ် ပင်လယ်ပြင်အတွင်း စက်လှေတစီးနဲ့ ဝင်ရောက်လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၇၈ ဦး မတ် ၁၉ ရက် မနက်ပိုင်းက ဖမ်းဆီးခံရတယ်လို့ လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့နဲ့ နီးစပ်သူတွေထံက သိရပါတယ်။

Indonesian fishermen rescue dozens of Rohingya after boat capsizes

REUTERS

March 20, 2024

JAKARTA, March 20 (Reuters) - Indonesian fishermen were scrambling on Wednesday to rescue dozens of Rohingya after high tides capsized their boat in waters off the province of Aceh, a regional fishing chief said.

 
The United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) estimates about 2,000 Rohingya have reached Indonesia since last October, among droves of the persecuted religious minority in Myanmar who fled to the Southeast Asia nation over the past year, mostly to Aceh.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်လှေ နစ်မြုပ် အင်ဒိုနီးရှား

VOA
သတင်းထောက် ဗွီအိုအေ
မတ်လ 20 ရက်၊ 2024

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ၊ အာချေးပြည်နယ် အနောက်အာချေးတွင် မတ် ၂၀ ရက်၊ ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ် မတ် 20 ရက်၊ 2024 ခုနှစ် Antara Foto ရိုက်ကူးထားသည့် ဓာတ်ပုံတွင် အင်ဒိုနီးရှားငါးဖမ်းသမားများက ၎င်းတို့၏ လှေကို ဒီရေတက်မှုကြောင့် ကယ်ဆယ်နိုင်ခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်စလင်ဒုက္ခသည်များသည် Samatiga ခရိုင်ရုံးတွင် အနားယူနေကြပါသည်။ 

ဒါဇင်နဲ့ချီတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်စလင်ဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို သယ်ဆောင်လာတဲ့ သစ်သားလှေတစ်စင်း အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ မြောက်ဘက်စွန်းစွန်း ၁၁ ကီလိုမီတာအကွာမှာ ဗုဒ္ဓဟူးနေ့က တိမ်းမှောက်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

Boats carrying scores of Rohingya refugees capsize off Indonesia: fishermen

ARAB NEWS
AFP
March 20, 2024

Ethnic Rohingya people rescued from their capsized boat rest at a local government building in Samatiga, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Mar. 20, 2024.( AP)

An Indonesian resident transports Rohingya Muslim refugees on a motorbike rickshaw to the Samatiga District Office after Indonesian fishermen rescued dozens of Rohingya after high tides capsized their boat in waters off the West Aceh, in Aceh province, Indonesia, on Mar. 20, 2024. (Reuters)

• A fisherman saw the Rohingyas at 8:00 am (0100 GMT) with their boat sinking
• The Rohingya boat had capsized off Kuala Bubon beach in West Aceh