At least 348 Rohingyas dead or missing at sea in 2022: UNHCR

NEWAGE

Staff Correspondent 
Published: Jan 18,2023

Over 3,500 of the persecuted Mayanmar nationals attempted deadly sea crossings in past year

At least 348 Rohingya individuals died or went missing at sea in 2022, making it one of the deadliest years since 2014, according to the latest data from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Besides, over 3,500 desperate Rohingya attempted deadly sea crossings in 39 boats in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal in 2022, the UN agency said.

This represents a 360 per cent increase on the year before when some 700 people made similar journeys, said UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo at a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Tuesday.

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.

U.N. refugee agency appeals for rescue of Rohingya stranded at sea

REUTERS
Reuters Staff
FEBRUARY 22, 2021 

(Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency called on Monday for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingya refugees adrift in their boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, many of them ill and suffering from extreme dehydration.

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees sit on a makeshift boat as they get interrogated by the Border Guard Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, at Shah Porir Dwip near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it did not know the exact location of the vessel and understood that some passengers had died. The boat had left southern Bangladesh about 10 days ago and experienced engine failure, it said.

“Immediate action is needed to save lives and prevent further tragedy,” UNHCR said in a statement, offering to support governments by providing humanitarian help to those rescued.

UNHCR appeals for immediate rescue of Rohingyas on sea

Dhaka TRibune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
February 22nd, 2021

File photo: Locals evacuate Rohingya refugees from a boat at a coast of North Aceh, Indonesia, June 25, 2020 Reuters

Unspecified number of Rohingyas on Andaman Sea for over a week with some already dead while others in distress

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday appealed to the maritime states along the Andaman Sea for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingyas refugees in distress.

Rohingya people arrested at sea shunted back to Myanmar camps

THE Star
Saturday, 05 Sep 2020

In this file photo taken on October 03, 2019 people walk in Kyauktalone camp in Kyaukphyu, Rakhine state, where Muslim residents have been forced to live for seven years after the inter-communal unrest tore apart the town. Myanmar has returned dozens of Rohingya to camps in conflict-wracked Rakhine state, officials said Thursday, after arresting them at sea as they tried to flee what rights groups brand as "apartheid" conditions. - AFP 

YANGON, Sept 5 (AFP): Myanmar has returned dozens of Rohingya to camps in conflict-wracked Rakhine state, officials have announced, after arresting them at sea as they tried to flee what rights groups brand as "apartheid" conditions.

A group of 42 Rohingya Muslims -- including two children -- was detained last Thursday (Sept 3) offshore of Bogale in Ayeyarwady region, local police told AFP.

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.