Dozens of Rohingya rescued from stricken vessel after weeks adrift at sea, but fears grow for those still aboard

CNN
By Rhea Mogul, CNN
Mon December 26, 2022

Indonesian military personnel inspect a wooden boat used to carry Rohingya refugees after it landed on Indra Patra beach in Ladong village, Aceh province, Indonesia, Sunday, December 25, 2022.

( CNN )After spending more than a month adrift on a stricken boat without food or water, dozens of starving Rohingya have been rescued in Indonesia, the United Nations refugee agency said Sunday, offering a glimmer of hope for the persecuted group who fled their refugee camps last month in search of a better life.

Babar Baloch, an Asia spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said 58 people believed to be from the boat were rescued in Aceh, though fears remain for the lives of an estimated 130 more – including many women and children – who are still stranded aboard the vessel.

“Some indications suggest local Indonesian fishermen may have done the rescue,” said Baloch. “We still are worried about (the remaining persons’) lives. Hoping they would be rescued soon.” 

24 Rohingyas rescued while being trafficked to Malaysia

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report 

May 11, 2021

Police rescued 24 Rohingyas -- 14 female, five male, and five children -- from Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar while being trafficked to Malaysia.

The law enforcers also arrested four alleged human traffickers -- Md Ali Chand, Nurul Amin, Rashida Begum, and Razia Begum -- during two separate drives in Borodail Jahajpura and Jaliaghata villages yesterday (Monday), Md Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Model Police Station, told The Daily Star.

Thirty Rohingyas rescued off Teknaf coast in Cox's Bazar

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Staff Correspondent
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Cox's Bazar, Teknaf

Coastguards rescued 30 Rohingya people from drifting boat on 27 April, 2021.Collected

Bangladesh Coast Guard on Tuesday rescued 30 Rohingyas from a boat drifting in the Bay of Bengal near Teknaf of Cox's Bazar while making a trip from Bangladesh to Malaysia.

According to the coast guard, the rescued Rohingyas are residents of refugee camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

Among the Rohingya people, five were children, five men and 20 women.

Till 1:00pm, the rescued people were kept under the coast guard custody at Baharchhar in Teknaf upazia. They were being handed over to the police at the time.

Coast guard rescues 30 Rohingyas stranded at sea

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
April 27th, 2021

Rescued Rohingyas with Baharchara Coast Gaurd members on April 27, 2021 Dhaka Tribune

They set out from Teknaf on a fishing boat on Friday

Bangladesh Coast Guard members have rescued 30 Rohingya men, women, and children who were illegally travelling to Malaysia by sea, in Cox's Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

They were rescued along with a fishing trawler from Bara Dale beach area of Baharchara union in Teknaf upazila at around 8am on Tuesday. Among them, 20 are women, five men and five children.

Bangladesh rescues 30 Rohingya adrift for days after pirate attack

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AFP
April 27, 2021

The refugees would be sent to an island facility named Bhashan Char. (AP pic)

COX’S BAZAR: The Bangladesh coastguard on Tuesday rescued 30 Rohingya refugees adrift in the Bay of Bengal for two days after they were attacked by pirates, an official said.

About a million Rohingya refugees live in sprawling camps in southeast Bangladesh, having fled repression in Myanmar.

Many pay often-unscrupulous traffickers to put them on dangerous sea journeys to Southeast Asian countries – in this case Malaysia, home to a sizable Rohingya diaspora.

30 Rohingyas heading to Malaysia rescued

The Daily Star
Our Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar
April 28, 2021

 

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Bangladesh Coast Guard members yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, who were trying to go to Malaysia illegally by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf.

The Rohingyas include 10 women and five children. They were residents of 

The coastguards also seized the trawler.

Quoting the refugees, Amirul Haque, an official of Coast Guard's media wing, told reporters that around 50 Rohingyas boarded the trawler from the beaches in Teknaf and Ukhia upazilas on April 22.

The trawler illegally started for Malaysia on Monday night and at one stage, the trawler driver shouted that robbers had been chasing them and anchored it on Boro Dail beach yesterday morning.

Rohingyas rescued from sea sent to Bhashan Char

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan and Ali Asif Shawon
May 2nd, 2020

File photo: A boat carrying suspected ethnic Rohingya migrants is seen detained in Malaysian territorial waters on April 5, 2020 Reuters

Rescued people to be sent to Bhashan Char, says the foreign minister

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have rescued an unspecified number of Rohingyas from the sea near Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

The rescued are from the two Rohingya-carrying boats that have been trying to enter Bangladeshi waters from International waters for about 12 days, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told Dhaka Tribune on Saturday.

Bangladesh coast guard rescues 396 Rohingya from drifting boat; 32 dead

REUTERS

Ruma Paul

April 16, 2020

 

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 32 ethnic Rohingya died on a ship that drifted for weeks after it failed to reach Malaysia, officials of the Bangladesh coast guard said on Thursday, following the rescue of 396 starving survivors.

Rohingya refugees who were rescued by Bangladesh Coast Guard, sit on the shore in Teknaf, subdistrict of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh April 15, 2020. Picture taken April 15, 2020. Abdul Aziz/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

 

For years, Rohingya from Myanmar have boarded boats organised by smugglers in the hope of finding refuge in Southeast Asia, usually making voyages during the dry season from November to March, when the waters are calm.

Nearly 400 Rohingya Rescued from Boat Drifting Off Bangladesh Coast

VOA

VOA News

April 16, 2020 

FILE - In this March 24, 2020, photo, Rohingya refugees wait in a relief distribution point at a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

At least 382 Rohingya refugees have been rescued off the coast of Bangladesh after drifting for several days aboard an overcrowded fishing boat.

Officials with Bangladesh’s coast guard said the boat was spotted late Wednesday and brought ashore. Video footage taken by a local journalist showed a crowd of mostly women and children looking emaciated as they were helped off the boat.

Rohingya girls rescued from traffickers in Bangladesh

 Aljazeera
12 May 2019

Bangladesh police rescue 23 teenagers from being flown to Malaysia and arrest four human traffickers in a raid in Dhaka.

Concern is increasing about the number of young women being smuggled across borders to marry Rohingya men abroad [Kaan Bozdogan/Anadolu]

At least 23 teenage Rohingya girls have been rescued after being brought from refugee camps to the capital, Dhaka, to be sent to Malaysia by air, Bangladesh police said on Sunday.

Dhaka police also arrested four human traffickers including a Rohingya couple and recovered more than 50 Bangladeshi passports from them on Saturday.