Nearly 300 Rohingya come ashore in Aceh after months at sea

Aljazeera
7th September 2020

The group included women and children and are thought to have spent months at sea as traffickers demanded payment.

Nearly 300 Rohingya have come ashore in Aceh, on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, authorities said, in one of the biggest such landings by the persecuted Myanmar minority in years.

The group, including more than a dozen children, were spotted at sea by locals who helped them land near Lhokseumawe early on Monday, according to Munir Cut Ali, head of Ujong Blang village.

Malaysia: Stop Treating Rohingya Refugees as Criminals

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

July 22, 2020

Jailing, Caning Refugees Violates International Law 

A boat carries Rohingya refugees off the coast of Langkawi, Malaysia, April 5, 2020. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency handout via AP

(Bangkok) – Malaysian authorities should stop prosecuting Rohingya refugees for illegal entry and ensure that they are protected in accordance with international law, Human Rights Watch said today.

At least 40 ethnic Rohingya who were picked up from a boat that arrived in Malaysian waters more than three months ago have been sentenced to seven months in prison. Fourteen children from the boat were sent to “shelters” and may also face criminal charges. Twenty-seven of the thirty-one men convicted also face three strokes of the cane – a brutal punishment that constitutes torture under international human rights law. A court will hear their application to set aside the caning sentence on July 22.

PM assures Liew on Rohingya refugees

Daily Express
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
By: NST

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia will not send any illegal immigrant who arrived here via boat back out to sea – including the 300 Rohingya refugees who entered the country’s waters last June. Instead, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the government will look for an appropriate solution for their situation. “The government had never planned on sending the Rohingya illegal immigrants back out to the open sea,” he said when giving a parliamentary reply.

Aceh ခရိုင်ကမ်းလွန်က ကယ်တင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေထဲ ကလေးငယ် အယောက် ၃၀ ပါ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
25 ဇွန်၊ 2020

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ခရိုင် ကမ်းလွန်ပင်လယ်ပြင်ထဲကနေ ကယ်တင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ။ (ဇွန် ၂၅၊ ၂၀၂၀)

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ခရိုင် ကမ်းလွန်ပင်လယ်ပြင်ထဲကနေ ကယ်တင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၁၀၀ နီးပါး ထဲမှာ ကလေးငယ် အယောက် ၃၀ ပါတယ်လို့ Aceh မြောက်ပိုင်းခရိုင် ရဲချုပ်ကပြောပါတယ်။

"အခုထိ ကယ်ဆယ်ထားတဲ့ သူတွေထဲ အမျိုးသား ၁၅ ဦး၊ အမျိုးသမီး ၄၉ ဦး နဲ့ ကလေး အယောက် ၃၀ မှာ ယောကျ်ားလေး ၁၀ ယောက်နဲ့ မိန်းကလေး အယောက် ၂၀ ပါတယ်။" လို့ ရဲချုပ် Tri Hadiyanto ကပြောပါ တယ်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၀၀ နီးပါးပါ စက်လှေတစင်း Aceh ကမ်းလွန် ပင်လယ်တွင်းမျောနေ

 VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
24 ဇွန်၊ 2020

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ဒေသ ကမ်းလွန်ပင်လယ်ပြင်မှာ စက်လှေတစင်းနဲ့အတူ တွေ့ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင်များ။ (ဇွန် ၂၄၊ ၂၀၂၀)

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ဒေသ ကမ်းလွန်ပင်လယ်ပြင်မှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင် ၁၀၀ လောက် လိုက်ပါလာတဲ့ စက်လှေတစင်း မျောနေတာကို ငါးဖမ်းလှေတွေက တွေ့ရှိခဲ့ကြပြီး အခုအခါ ကမ်းကပ်ခွင့်ရဖို့ စောင့်ဆိုင်းနေ ပါတယ်။
                                                                              

Bangladesh says will not take Rohingya refugees detained in Malaysia

malaymail
Wednesday, 10 Jun 2020

Malaysia on Monday detained 269 Rohingya refugees and found a dead body on a damaged boat off the resort island of Langkawi. — Reuters pic

DHAKA, June 10 — Bangladesh said Tuesday it would refuse to take back 269 Rohingya refugees detained by the Malaysian coastguard while they were adrift on a damaged boat.

“Bangladesh will not take them. Bangladesh is neither obligated nor in a position to take any more Rohingya,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told Anadolu Agency.

Malaysia on Monday detained 269 Rohingya refugees and found a dead body on a damaged boat off the resort island of Langkawi.

Malaysia to ask Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees found at sea

REUTERS
9th June 2020

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation’s defence minister said on Tuesday.

Malaysia does not recognise refugee status but has been a favoured destination for ethnic Rohingya, most of them Muslims, who fled a 2017 military-led crackdown in Myanmar, and more recently, squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Malaysia detains 270 Rohingya refugees who had drifted at sea for weeks

B B C
9th June 2020

File photo of Rohingya refugees arriving in in Malaysian waters

Malaysia has detained nearly 270 Rohingya refugees whose boat had drifted offshore for nearly two months because of coronavirus lockdowns.

They fled southern Bangladesh in early April but had been unable to dock.

Dozens of those aboard jumped into the sea and tried to swim to land when their damaged trawler was intercepted by the Malaysian coastguard on Monday.

Rohingya refugee crisis: 'The bodies were thrown out of the boat'

B B C

By Swaminathan Natarajan and Moazzem Hossain 

BBC World Service

29 May 2020

Khadiza fled Myanmar after her husband and son were killed 

"Nobody knows how many people have died. It could be 50 or even more," recalls Khadiza Begum.

The 50-year-old was among 396 Rohingya Muslims who had tried to reach Malaysia but who finally returned to the Bangladeshi shore after the boat carrying them was stranded at sea for two months.

Her estimate on the number of deaths comes from the funerals her son officiated as an imam, a Muslim preacher, on the same boat.

The human smugglers never delivered them to their longed-for destination.

Rohingyas stranded at sea: IOM calls for rescue, safe disembarkation

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Desk
May 28th, 2020

Rohingya refugees who were rescued by Bangladesh Coast Guard in Teknaf upazila, Cox's Bazar on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Rohingya Photography Competition

 

For years, Rohingya have travelled by sea to Malaysia where they hope to find work and reunite with family members

International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said they are "increasingly concerned" about the plight of hundreds of Rohingyas believed to be stranded at sea, noting that cyclone Amphan signalled a ferocious start to the cyclone season in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

No ‘bitter end’ for Rohingya

ASIA TIMES

Christopher P Catrambone 
May 20, 2020

 A wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi on April 5. Photo: AFP/Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency 

When it comes to writing about the plight of refugees, one can often feel like a broken record. There is a disheartening sense that everything has been said, twice, and yet nothing changes for the better.

Indeed, there’s a kind of perverse Murphy’s Law at work. Every new twist marks an expansion of our understanding of the threshold for human misery, and of our capacity for failing our fellow man. This is particularly true for the Rohingya.

After Weeks at Sea, 277 Rohingya Land in Bangladesh

The New Yprk Times
By The Associated Press

May 8, 2020

DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 250 Rohingya Muslim refugees who had been floating for weeks on a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal arrived Friday on an island in southern Bangladesh, officials said.

The 277 refugees were taken to Bhasan Char island after they reached Bangladesh’s coast, said Mohammed Alamgir Hossain, police superintendent in Noakhali district where the island is located. He said the navy took them there after their boat was spotted.

ပင္လယ္ျပင္မွာ လနဲ႔ခ်ီေမ်ာပါခဲ့တဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ရဲ႕ ေျပာျပခ်က္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

05 ေမ၊ 2020
နန္းေလာင္၀္

ပင္လယ္ျပင္ကို စက္ေလွေတြနဲ႔ျဖတ္ၿပီး ထိုင္း၊ မေလးရွား ႏိုင္ငံေတြကိုသြားဖို႔ ႀကိဳးစားၾကတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡ သည္ေတြ ရင္ဆိုင္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေအၾတ့အႀကဳံေၾတကို ႐ိုက္တာသတင္းဌာနက ေမးျမန္းထားတဲ့အေၾကာင္းကို နန္းေလာင္ဝ္ ေျပာျပေပးမွာပါ။
လင့္၊https://burmese.voanews.com/a/rohingya-boat-people/5405545.html

လှေစီးပြေး ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို ဒေသတွင်းနိုင်ငံတွေ ကူညီဖို့ EU တိုက်တွန်း

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
04 မေ၊ 2020

Langkawi ကျွန်းရှိ မလေးရှားပိုင်နက်အတွင်းမှာ တွေ့ရတဲ့ လှေစီးပြေး ရိုဟင်ဂျာတချို့ (ဓာတ်ပုံ - AFP PHOTO / MALAYSIAN MARITIME ENFORCEMENT AGENCY)

အမျိုးသမီးတွေနဲ့ ကလေးငယ်တွေ အပါအဝင် ရာနဲ့ချီတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ ပင်လယ်ပြင်မှာ ရက်သတ္တ ပတ်တွေနဲ့ချီ မျောပါနေတဲ့ အခြေအနေတွေနဲ့ မကြုံရအောင် ဒေသတွင်းနိုင်ငံတွေ ဝိုင်းဝန်းကူညီကြဖို့ ဥရော ပသမဂ္ဂ (EU) က တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

Watchdog concerned over ‘risky quarantine’ of Rohingya

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman 

DHAKA, Bangladesh

05.05.2020 

Bangladeshi minister defends sending 29 Rohingya refugees to remote island for quarantine 

A global human rights watchdog on Tuesday voiced concerns over safety of 29 Rohingya refugees, who have been quarantined at a remote island by Bangladeshi authorities.

“Bangladesh authorities have quarantined 29 Rohingya refugees without adequate access to aid on an unstable silt island in the Bay of Bengal,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement on Tuesday.

Concerns raised after Rohingya quarantined on Bangladeshi island

Aljazeera
5,May 2020

HRW says relocation of 29 Rohingya to flood-prone Bhasan Char island without access to aid poses risk to refugees.

Authorities said the 29 Rohingya were relocated to the controversial Bhasan Char island to prevent coronavirus outbreak in the refugee camps [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Rights groups and aid agencies have raised concerns after dozens of stranded Rohingya refugees, who landed at Bangladesh's southern coast at the weekend, were sent to an inhabitable island in the Bay of Bengal.

Rohingya refugees sent to flood-prone Bangladesh island after months at sea

DW
2020.05.04

After being turned away by Malaysia, at least 500 Rohingya refugees facing persecution in Myanmar have spent two months at sea. Now one boat of 29 people has been sent to an "uninhabitable" Bangladeshi island.

After being turned away by Malaysia, at least 500 Rohingya refugees facing persecution in Myanmar have spent two months at sea. Now one boat of 29 people has been sent to an "uninhabitable" Bangladeshi island.

Rohingya tell of death at sea: Hundreds still adrift

REUTERS
Posted May 4, 2020
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February would be his ticket out of a camp in Bangladesh to a better life in Malaysia.

 Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February would be his ticket out of a camp in Bangladesh to a better life in Malaysia.Instead, the voyage nearly killed him. Libby Hogan reports.

Instead, the voyage nearly killed him.

The 20-year-old was among almost 400 survivors pulled from the water, starving, emaciated and traumatized after the boat failed to reach Malaysia and spent weeks adrift before returning to Bangladesh in mid-April.

Nowhere to flee, Rohingya refugees are struggling to survive

Dhaka Tribune

Sayedullah, Kamal, Alom Shah
May 3rd, 2020

File photo of Rohingya women and children in a camp in Cox Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu/ Dhaka Tribune

Instead of looking forward to a better, more peaceful future, Rohingya are starting to flee again. This time, they are fleeing from Bangladesh

In 2017, when the genocidal campaign in Myanmar forced the Rohingya across the border and into Bangladesh, we came seeking refuge and safety. The country opened its borders and its hearts to almost 800,000 Rohingya and we were grateful.

Dozens of Rohingya From Stranded Boat Land in Southern Bangladesh: Official Says

The New York Times

Reuters
May 2, 2020

DHAKA — Dozens of Rohingya believed to be from one of several boats stuck at sea landed on the coast of southern Bangladesh on Saturday, an official said, as concerns grew over hundreds stranded for weeks on trawlers because of coronavirus restrictions.

“A small boat carrying 43 people came to shore today,” the government official said, declining to be named because they were not authorized to speak to media.

Some of the arrivals were sent to Bhasan Char, a remote island off the coast where authorities previously planned to house Rohingya, the official said.