48 Rohingya arrested off Myanmar coast after fleeing refugee camps

THE STRAITS TIMES
2020-02-14

The Jamtoli refugee camp in Ukhia in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.PHOTO: AFP

 

PATHEIN, Myanmar (AFP) - Nearly 50 Rohingya Muslims have been detained at sea by Myanmar's navy, a local official said on Friday (Feb 14), the latest from the persecuted minority to be caught trying to flee camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar's restive Rakhine state.

It was not immediately clear where the group started their boat journey but they were likely aiming for Malaysia or Indonesia, predominantly Muslim countries with large Rohingya diasporas.

Deaths of 16 Rohingya at sea raises fears trafficking ring has been revived

The Guardian
Kaamil Ahmed
Wed 12 Feb 2020


Smugglers responsible for mass atrocities in Thailand may be linked to capsized boat carrying refugees from Bangladesh to Malaysia.

 The overloaded boat was carrying about 138 people when it capsized.
Photograph: Joynal Abedin/AP 

 

Activists fear a dangerous transnational trafficking network is being revived after at least 16 Rohingya refugees drowned in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning.

Bangladeshi officials said a wooden fishing boat carrying about 138 people capsized near Bangladesh’s St Martin’s island in the early hours.

16 dead after overcrowded Rohingya boat sinks off Bangladesh

DAILY SABAH

FRENCH PRESS AGENCY 

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh

Published 11.02.2020

In this Sept. 14, 2017 photo, Rohingya Muslim arrive on a boat from Myanmar to Bangladesh in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. (AP Photo) 

At least 16 people drowned and dozens more were unaccounted for after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off southern Bangladesh early Tuesday, officials said.

Some 130 people were packed on the fishing trawler that was trying to get across the Bay of Bengal to Malaysia, coast guard spokesman Hamidul Islam told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Seventy of them had so far been rescued.

လှေစီးပြေး ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၁၂၂ ဦး ဘင်္ဂလားကမ်းရိုး တန်းစောင့်တပ် ကယ်တင်

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
15 နိုဝင်ဘာ၊ 2019 

၂၀၁၇ တုန်းက ထွက်ပြေးလာတဲ့ လှေစီးပြေး ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ

 

Bangladesh နိုင်ငံဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေကနေ မလေးရှားကို သွားဖို့ကြိုးစားတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည် ၁၂၂ ယောက်ကို ဘင်္ဂလားပင်လယ်အော်ထဲမှာ Bangladesh ကမ်းရိုးတမ်းစောင့်တပ်ဖွဲ့က ကြာသပတေးနေ့က ကယ်တင်ခဲ့ရတယ်လို့ တပ်ဖွဲ့ ပြောခွင့်ရသူက ပြောပါတယ်။

Rohingya boat stranded in Myanmar

UCAnews

John Zaw, Mandalay
Myanmar
July 10, 2019

Boat was floundering in rough seas when it drifted ashore in Rakhine State 

Myanmar navy personnel escort Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, on Nov. 30, 2018, after they were detained at sea while trying to reach Malaysia. (AFP photo)

Myanmar authorities have found 63 Rohingya Muslims who were stranded near a beach in Rakhine State after their boat ran out of fuel. 

The vessel was carrying 29 men, 34 women and four crew members when it drifted to the shore while floundering in heavy seas on July 7. 

Boat captain says he was paid RM13, 314 to take 65 Rohingya to Malaysia

THE Star ONLINE 
Thursday, 13 Jun 2019

BANGKOK (ANN): Police suspect a group of 65 Rohingya and five Myanmar men may have been trafficked from Bangladesh where over a million of them are being sheltered, after a Thai captain admitted that he was paid to take them across the Andaman Sea to Southeast Asia.

PM Prayuth calls to expedite probe, provide aid for Rohingyas stranded in Satun

FMT
Bernama
June 13, 2019

A Rohingya woman and her baby are detained in a police station in Rawi Island, Thailand after they were found on a fishing boat bound for Malaysia. (Reuters pic)

BANGKOK:Thailand prime minister General Prayuth Chan o-cha has instructed relevant authorities to expedite investigations on a group of 65 Rohingyas stranded at Rawi Island off the coast of Satun in southern Thailand on Tuesday. 

37 Rohingya found in Perlis, says report

THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT
Published on 8 Apr 2019

A boat laden with Rohingya migrants intercepted by Thai authorities last month. – EPA pic, April 8, 2019.

AUTHORITIES found 37 people, believed to be Rohingya from Myanmar, on a beach in Perlis today, Reuters reports.

This is the second landing on the same beach since last month, sparking fears of a new wave of people smuggling by sea, the new agency reports.

Link : https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/146294

Reporters face jail over Rohingya report (AJ )

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Thailand's navy has accused journalists of defamation after a report alleged it helped human traffickers.

by Shaikh Azizur Rahman
2 Jan 2014