Terror At Sea: Migrants Tell Of 200-Day Ordeal

THE ASEAN POST

13 September 2020 

This photo taken on 8 September, 2020 shows a group of Rohingya men sleeping on a pile of donated clothes at a transit camp on the beach in Lhokseumawe on the northern coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island. (AFP Photo)

When hundreds of Rohingya refugees paid traffickers to escape their squalid camp in Bangladesh, they were promised a new life in Malaysia after just one week at sea.

Instead, the group of mostly women and children suffered more than 200 days of terror on the high seas, until they landed this week on Indonesia's northern coast, where they are now back in refugee tents.

Cox's Bazar administration, IOM reaffirm collaboration to tackle human trafficking

UNB
UNB NEWS
July 30, 2020

 Cox's Bazar district administration and IOM on Thursday reaffirmed their continued collaboration to counter human trafficking in the coastal district currently hosting over a million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.

According to IOM data, between September 2017 and June this year, 655 victims of trafficking (45 percent Rohingya and 55 percent local Bangladeshis) were identified and assisted by IOM and its partners in Cox’s Bazar.

48 Rohingya arrested off Myanmar coast

THE Star
Sunday, 16 Feb 2020

 

 

Bangladesh policemen stand next suspected human traffickers following their arrest, in Teknaf. Nearly 50 Rohingya Muslims have been detained at sea by Myanmar's navy on Friday, local officials said on Sunday (Feb 15), the latest from the persecuted minority to be caught trying to flee camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar's restive Rakhine state.- AFP

 

PATHEIN: Nearly 50 Rohingya Muslims have been detained at sea by Myanmar's navy on Friday, local officials said on Sunday (Feb 15), the latest from the persecuted minority to be caught trying to flee camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar's restive Rakhine state.

Nine human traffickers arrested over capsized Rohingya boat

AsiaNews.it
BANGLADESH
02/14/2020

The 13-meter vessel had at least 138 refugees on board. Over the past two years, 25,000 Rohingya have attempted to leave the camps and 713 have been rescued at sea. The preferred routes are to Malaysia and Indonesia.

Dhaka (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Bangladesh police have arrested nine alleged human traffickers connected to the recent wreck of the overcrowded boat of Rohingya, during which 15 refugees died and many others remain missing. The arrests have taken place in the past two days in the southern district of Cox’s Bazar, where most of the tent cities hosting the refugees are located.