Report: Malaysian authorities destroyed Wang Kelian mass grave site

Dhaka Tribune  
Tribune Desk
Published at March 29th, 2019

Malaysia's government has set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe the Wang Kelian deaths Reuters

'A forensic team also confirmed on March 6, 2015 that the suspected grave site was indeed a mass grave but Malaysian authorities did not order the exhumation of the bodies until May 2015'

The Malaysian authorities ordered a human trafficking campsite - believed to contain bodies of trafficked Rohingya and Bangladeshis - at Wang Kelian, Perlis, destroyed a day after its discovery in early 2015, claimed Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam).

Human Traffickers Accused of 'Crimes Against Humanity' in Thailand and Malaysia

TIME
By Amy Gunia
Updated: March 28, 2019

 

Roshid Alam holds photograph of his son, Mohammad Faisal, who was only 14 when he and 170 other Rohingya got on a boat in 2012 bound for Malaysia in this photo in Shamlapur, Bangladesh on July, 4. 2015.
Shazia Rahman—Getty Images

Human rights experts say a transnational criminal syndicate committed crimes against humanity in trafficking Rohingya Muslims who fled violence and persecution in Myanmar, as well as Bangladeshi nationals trying to reach Malaysia.

Traffickers allegedly murdered, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured, raped, starved, and forced displacement of their victims between 2012 to 2015, according to a joint investigation by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and Bangkok-based rights group Fortify Rights.

Report: Rohingya Refugees Suffered Crimes Against Humanity in Massive Human Trafficking Scheme.

RFA
Eugene Whong
2019-03-27

Malaysian forensic team members inspect remains found in an unmarked grave outside Wang Kelian, Malaysia, near the border with Thailand, May 26, 2015.

A human trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity between 2012 and 2015 against Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees trying to flee to Malaysia and Thailand, two Southeast Asia-based human rights groups said in a report on Wednesday.

In the joint 121-page work titled “Sold Like Fish,” the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and the Bangkok-based Fortify Rights provides accounts of survivors who were deceived by the traffickers, believing they were boarding boats to seek refuge abroad.

Malaysia: Ensure Accountability for Mass Graves, Human Trafficking Atrocities Against Rohingya

FORTIFY RIGHT
RIGHTS

News Release

Malaysia: Ensure Accountability for Mass Graves, Human Trafficking Atrocities Against Rohingya

Report finds trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity

(KUALA LUMPUR, March 27, 2019)—In a new joint report released today, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and Fortify Rights find reasonable grounds to believe that a human-trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity in Malaysia and Thailand against Rohingya men, women, and children from 2012 to 2015.

The 121-page report follows the Government of Malaysia’s recent creation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate human trafficking and mass graves—believed to contain the bodies of trafficked Rohingya and Bangladeshis—discovered in Wang Kelian, Perlis State in 2015. The Royal Commission of Inquiry is expected to submit its final report in June.

Young women trafficked to China to be brides and held until they give birth, report says

CNN
By James Griffiths, CNN
Fri March 22, 2019

Young women trafficked to China and held until they give birth, report says

According to a new report by Human Rights Watch, women from Myanmar's Kachin minority are being trafficked into China, where they are sold as wives and raped until they become pregnant.

(CNN)Seng Moon was an impoverished refugee in an internal displaced person (IDP) camp in northeastern Myanmar when her sister-in-law convinced her to cross the border into China to find a job. 

KL forms panel to probe 2015 discovery of mass graves, human trafficking of Rohingya in Perlis

THE STRAITS TIMES
5TH MARCH 2019


 PUTRAJAYA - Malaysia on Tuesday (March 5) formed a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to formally probe the shocking discovery in 2015 of mass graves and human trafficking activities in northern Perlis state, with the victims believed to be stateless Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

Malaysia's Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin handed appointment letters to the seven panel members, saying the new government is committed to uncovering the truth and bringing the culprits to justice, Malay Mail online news reported.

UK aid protecting women from trafficking in Burma – and helping them into jobs

GOV.UK 
Published 18 February 2019

Press release 

International Development Secretary calls for most vulnerable to be given a say in Burma's future after shifting the work of UK aid to help disadvantaged and conflict-affected people.  

From:     Department for International Development and The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP  

On her first visit to Burma, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt called for the most vulnerable to be given a say in their country’s future after shifting the work of UK aid there to help disadvantaged and conflict-affected people.

'ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ ႏိုင္မွာမဟုတ္ဘူး' လို႔ လူခိုးသြင္းသူေတြကို ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ သတိေပး

SBS
 17 Feb 2019 - 10:05pm

ၾသစေၾတးလ်ႏိုင္ငံထဲ ေလွေတြနဲ႔ လူေတြကို ခိုးသြင္းဖို႔ ၾကိဳးစားမယ္ဆိုရင္ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ ႏိုင္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ Scott Morrison က ဗီဒီယိုတစ္ခုမွာ ေျပာဆိုထားပါတယ္။

မေလးရွားသြားဖို႔ၾကိဳးစားတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၄၀ ေက်ာ္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရ

VOA
14 ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ၊ 2019, ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

 ဧၿပီ ၂၀၁၈ တုန္းက မေလးရွားသြားဖို႔ၾကိဳးစားတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား

မေလးရွားႏုိင္ငံကုိ ေရေၾကာင္းကေနသြားဖုိ႔ ႀကိဳးစားၾကတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ၄၃ ေယာက္ကုိ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ ႔ က တားဆီးႏုိင္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒီအထဲမွာ ပါ၀င္တဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီး ေတြ ကေတာ့ လူေမွာင္ခုိေတြက ဖမ္းဆီးတာ ခံရေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆုိခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔လည္း ဆုိပါတယ္။

Bangladesh rescues ‘abducted’ Malaysia-bound Rohingya

malaymail 

Published 11 hours ago on 14 February 2019

Rohingya refugees stand in a queue to collect aid supplies in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, January 21, 2018. — Reuters pic

DHAKA, Feb 14 — Bangladesh police have stopped 43 Rohingya refugees from being smuggled to Malaysia by boat with a dozen women claiming they were abducted by traffickers, officials said today.

Bangladesh stops more refugees taking risky trip to Malaysia

mizzima

By AFP

12 February 2019

Rohingya refugees walk back to their tent during dusk at the Kutupalong refugee camp on November 18, 2018. Photo: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP
Bangladesh security forces stopped 22 Rohingya Muslims from being smuggled to Malaysia by boat, officials said Monday, the second group in three days prevented from leaving squalid refugee camps.

Cops block man’s bid to wed 11-year-old Rohingya in Penang

malaymail

10 February 2019,By Emmanuel Santa Maria Chin

File photo of an ethnic Rohingya refugee who was among a boatload of asylum seekers standing by the window of an immigration quarantine centre in Langsa district in Aceh province. — AFP pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Penang police halted a wedding ceremony between an 11-year-old Rohingya girl and a 21-year-old man in Taman Senangin, Butterworth on Wednesday.

The agency acted on a report by Lifebridge Learning Centre director K. Sudhagaran Stanley Singh, after he noticed the girl’s absence from the centre.

30 Rohingyas rescued from Teknaf coastal areas

DhakaTribune  

February 8th, 2019

BGB members, in separate drives, detains 32 people—30 Rohingyas and two Bangladeshi alleged human traffickers—from the Shah Porir Dwip, Bholar char, and Shilkhali coastal areas in Teknaf on Friday; February 08, 2019 Dhaka Tribune
Six of the rescued Rohingya are male, 17 female, and seven children
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have rescued 30 Rohingyas—including women and children—who were attempting to travel to Malaysia from Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

Trafficking in Rohingya camps feared rising as crisis rolls on

by Naimul Karim | @Naimonthefield | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tuesday, 5 February 2019 01:00 GMT

Anti-trafficking groups fear human trafficking routes to southeast Asia through Bay of Bengal are being used to smuggle increasingly desperate Rohingya refugees out of Bangladesh.

 

 

 

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a shelter made of plastic sheets and bamboo next to a reeking stream in the world's largest refugee settlement, Rohingya Nazma Akter recalled how her daughter was trafficked seven months ago.

Myanmar’s Military Warns Ethnic Armies Against Trying to Expand Territory During Cease-fire.

2019-01-25

 Major General Tun Tun Nyi, vice chairman of the Myanmar military’s information committee, prepares to discuss the recent Arakan Army conflict at a rare military press conference at the Defense Services Museum in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw, Jan. 18, 2019.

Myanmar’s military on Friday warned ethnic armed groups to end hostilities in five of its command regions around the country and to stop attempts to expand their territory during the temporary unilateral cease-fire that the armed forces imposed in December, or risk damaging the nation’s teetering peace process.

Thai kingpin jailed for 35 years for Rohingya human-trafficking ( South China Morning Post )

 

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 01 September, 2016

A Thai man accused of masterminding the smuggling and trafficking of Rohingya migrants fleeing Myanmar has been jailed for 35 years, a court said on Thursday.

Southern Thailand has long been known as a nexus for lucrative smuggling networks through which persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, and Bangladeshi economic migrants, pass on their way to Malaysia.