Malaysia Says 41 Rohingya Land on Northern Shores, 200 Still At Sea

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Associated Press

April 10, 2019

The refugee crisis stemming from Myanmar continues.

Malaysian police said Monday that 41 Muslim Rohingya men and boys have been detained in the northernmost state of Perlis. They are second group to land in the country in just over a month, and some 200 others are still believed to be at sea.

Rohingya arrive in Malaysia, more believed at sea

DUNYA NEWS

Last Updated On 09 April,2019

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Forty-one Rohingya were found in northern Malaysia Monday, police said, the second group of the Muslim minority to arrive in the country within weeks, while about 200 more are feared trapped at sea.

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THE TIMES
Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor
The Times, April 9 2019,
Asia

Rohingya refugees arrive in Bangladesh after a long and dangerous journeyTIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL 

Rohingya refugees are embarking on perilous sea crossings to escape from the refugee camps in Bangladesh into which they have been forced after fleeing oppression in their native Burma.

The authorities in Malaysia announced yesterday that they had detained 41 Rohingya Muslims, the third group to be intercepted in two weeks and a sign of increasing desperation among those displaced from Rakhine state in Burma. 

Bangladesh stops Rohingya making risky journey to Malaysia

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Channel News Asia ( CNA )
30 Mar 2019 

     About 740,000 of the Muslim minority fled Myanmar for Bangladesh. (Photo: AFP/Munir Uz Zaman)

TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Bangladesh security forces stopped 29 people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, from being smuggled to Malaysia in rickety fishing boats, officials said Saturday (Mar 30), the latest group prevented from leaving squalid refugee camps.

Dozens of Rohingya found in Perlis after perilous sea journey

malaymail

01 March 2019

File picture of Rohinyga and Bangladeshi refugees in Langkawi May 14, 2015. Thirty-four Rohingya were found on a beach in Perlis today, police said. — Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 — Thirty-four Rohingya were found on a beach in Malaysia today, police said, the first of the Muslim minority group thought to have arrived in the country by sea for almost a year.

About 740,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar for Bangladesh after a military clampdown in August 2017, joining huge numbers already confined to camps.