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January 20, 2013

An Iranian MP says the Islamic Republic plans to set up a camp in Myanmar to help the efforts to provide relief to the country’s Rohingya Muslims.

On Saturday, Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Deputy Chairman Mansour Haqiqatpour said agreements have been reached with senior Myanmar officials to set up a camp in Rakhine state that can accommodate thousands of Rohingya refugees and where food can be provided for them. 

He stated that Tehran will soon put forward its own plan for the cessation of violence against Rohingya Muslims and the restoration of the social rights of the Muslim community. 

Earlier this month, an Iranian parliamentary delegation visited Myanmar to examine the situation of the Rohingya Muslims and find ways to help them. 

Officials of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the country’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS), and the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee accompanied the Iranian lawmakers during their visit to Myanmar. 

Some 800,000 Rohingyas are deprived of citizenship rights due to the policy of discrimination that has denied them the right of citizenship and made them vulnerable to acts of violence and persecution, expulsion, and displacement. 

The Myanmar government has so far refused to extricate the stateless Rohingyas in the western state of Rakhine from their citizenship limbo, despite international pressure to give them a legal status. 
Rohingya Muslims have faced torture, neglect, and repression in Myanmar since it achieved independence in 1948.
Hundreds of Rohingyas are believed to have been killed and thousands displaced in recent attacks by extremists who call themselves Buddhists. 

The extremists frequently attack Rohingyas and have set fire to their homes in several villages in Rakhine. Myanmar Army forces allegedly provided the fanatics containers of petrol for torching the houses of Muslim villagers, who are then forced to flee. 

Myanmar’s government has been accused of failing to protect the Muslim minority. 

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has also come under fire for her stance on the violence. The Nobel Peace laureate has refused to censure the Myanmarese military for its persecution of the Rohingyas. 

Rohingyas are said to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish, Bengali, and Pathan origin, who migrated to Myanmar as early as the 8th century. 

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have issued separate statements, calling on Myanmar to take action to protect the Rohingya Muslim population against extremists.

The Nation
January 20, 2013

Thai officials will go to an island off Phang Nga today after another boatload of Rohingya refugees - thought to be the fourth over the past week or so - was found there late yesterday. Officials said the refugees were hiding in jungle on the unnamed island and it was too dark to try to round them up last night.

The arrival of two more vessels - one on the island, and another towed ashore near Khura Buri on Friday means about 1,000 Rohingya have landed on Thailand's Andaman coast or been captured in Sadao, further south, this month.

Meanwhile, five more vessels are allegedly at sea and heading this way, according to refugees on the "third" vessel, who came ashore on Friday.

Some 114 people were on "third" boat that arrived in Phang Nga province on Friday, about 100km south of Ranong. These refugees, aged from 60 to a one-year-old baby, were said to be in a very weak condition as they had run out of food and water, despite having stopped and collected water on an island on their 13-day journey south.

A translator working for Al Jazeera said the Rohingya on the "third" boat told provincial officials they were on one of eight boats that left Sittwe together. Only three of these had arrived in Thailand to date. The eight boats drifted apart over the past two weeks and the location of the other five is unknown.

Sittwe is a port in Arakan State (also known as Rakhine State) in western Myanmar close to sites where ethnic violence caused more than 100 deaths and forced tens of thousands of people - mostly Muslims - to flee their homes in June and then again just a few months ago. 

District officials were overseeing aid for the "third" boatload at the district hall in Khura Buri yesterday. Medics and local Muslims were helping to give out medicine, food and blankets. Many people on this boat were sick, none were said to have died during the trip.

Four teenage boys who had been on the "third" vessel but hid from Thai authorities on an island off the coast before it was towed to the mainland, wandered into the camp yesterday to join their friends after getting a lift to the mainland on another boat. 

All up some 114 on the "third" vessel had been charged by police for illegal entry into Thailand.

Meanwhile, about 550 were found in raids in Sadao, further south, and 135 arrived on two vessels that arrived last week. 

Officials in Khura Buri said they were waiting to hear from top authorities in Bangkok on what to do with the latest arrivals. 

Many of the Rohingya survivors have been stuck in refugee camps not far from Sittwe living in bleak conditions and facing an uncertain future, given that Nay Pyi Taw has refused to recognise them as citizens, and asked United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres in June to resettle them. 

The Myanmar government calls the Rohingya "Bengalis" and insists they arrived in their country in recent times, despite evidence by academics that this ethnic group has lived in the Rakhine area for several centuries.

Qutub Shah
RB News
January 19, 2013

(Edited by Mayu Thitsar)

Maungdaw: Yesterday, at least 10 Nasaka personnel led by Major Win Hlaing, the Head of the Nasaka Region 5 based in Ngakura village, launched a raid on the house of Mohammed Husain s/o Akhtar Kamal, 53, under the pretext of investigating illicit drugs called ‘Yaba Tablets’. Although they found nothing, they arrested him after they themselves put some narcotic drugs deliberately into a cupboard in his house. They, then, detained him until the fulfillment of burning desire of the said major. He was released after being extorted an amount of 6,000,000 Kyats.

At the same day, Nasaka Chief Inspector Tun Sein of Region 2, Kamaung Seit (Fakira Bazaar) arrested a Rohingya, local oil-seller named Jamal s/o Abdul Mabud, 35, and extorted 300,000 Kyats simply because a container with 40 kg kerosene was found in his house, selling which the poor Rohingya earns a meager income to look after his six family members.

“Everyday this Tun Sein targets 2 to 3 Rohingya houses and extorts huge amounts of money on pretext of non-permitted house construction although our houses had been built for 20 years ago or so. That’s even before the formation of Nasaka department. I believe nobody in our country suffering like us. The central government should pay attention on our plight” a villager on the condition of anonymity told to RB News.

There are nearly one hundred Rohingya families reside in Bandolla village tract under Nasaka Region 1, Aung Thapyay. Of them at least 30 families had been forcibly Bengalised nowadays by the authorities using the computerized system after taking them into a restricted place, meanwhile many other families fled.
Rohingya migrants paint a temporary shelter in Bang Klam district in Songkhla province. (Photo - Tawatchai Kemgumnerd)
Bangkok Post
January 19, 2013

Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has admitted some of his soldiers in the far South are involved in trafficking Rohingya migrants into Thailand before sending them to work in Malaysia.

Gen Prayuth said some members of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) were linked to smuggling rings and he promised to track them down.

"These bad apples must be punished and got rid of," he said on Saturday.

His statement came after a police investigation in Songkhla province pointed to some army officers and local politicians allegedly connected with Rohingya trafficking.

A high-ranking police source working on the case told the Bangkok Post that trafficking of Rohingya migrants, mostly from Rakhine state in Myanmar, had been taking place for several years.

The activity and trafficking routes were all in southern areas under the control of certain military officers who hold the rank from major to colonel, said the source.

The officers have connections with Myanmar citizens in Thailand who contact brokers in Myanmar to supply the workers by shipping them to Thailand. Upon arrival in Thailand, the Rohingya migrants are taken in trucks to Songkhla and made to hide themselves in border jungles, waiting to be sent to neighbouring Malaysia.

Military trucks sometimes were used to transport the Rohingya migrants, according to the source.

Rohingya migrants receive donations to help them survive while they stay at a shelter in Bang Klam district in Songkhla. (Photo - Tawatchai Kemgumnerd)
Isoc spokesman Maj Gen Dithaporn Sasasamit said on Saturday that no information has been received from the police regarding Isoc members' involvement with the exploitation of the Rohingya.

"Isoc cannot provide any information at this time, pending the investigation," he said.

Thailand is currently sheltering 949 Rohingya. Most of them are in Songkhla and the rest have been sent to Narathiwat, Trang, Pattani and Phangnga provinces.

On Thursday authorities rounded up 397 Rohingya packed into a makeshift shelter in a rubber plantation at Ban Chaikhuan Thungmaiduan in tambon Padang Besar of Sadao district in Songkhla.

The investigation found that the roundup stemmed from a business conflict among the traffickers. The police suspected some army officers allegedly used to be involved in the trafficking gang.

The rubber plantation belongs to Prasit Lemlae, the former deputy mayor of Padang Besar municipality. He is still at large after facing charges of smuggling 397 illegal immigrants into Thailand and providing them with shelter.

Police have issued arrest warrants for him and a Myanmar national named only as Jamanadin.

In addition to the two, police have already filed smuggling charges against four Myanmar nationals, two Rohingya and two Thais arrested after the Thursday's raid.

Songkhla Governor Grisada Boonrach has threatened to take disciplinary and legal action against district chiefs and other local officials if any are found taking part in human trafficking. But he said he had not yet found any officials who were part of the scheme.

Thai authorities had planned to deport the migrants them back to Myanmar, where rights activists say they would face severe persecution or worse.

After growing pressure from the United Nations, human rights groups and local Muslims, the government decided to allow the migrants to stay in Thailand temporarily.
Muhammad Sabare, 14, weeps in gratitude as he represents Rohingya youngsters who gathered to give thanks to people who donated food and other necessities to them at a shelter in Narathiwat yesterday. Locals donated to many shelters housing Rohingya across the southernmost provinces. (Photo - WAEDAO HARAI)
Bangkok Post
Jaunary 19, 2013

A huge procession of Thai people turned out to deliver food, cash and necessities to help Rohingya migrants confined in various shelters yesterday.

In Narathiwat's Yi-ngo district, Nasaran Salae-ma, headmaster of Akrasatwitthaya School, imam representatives as well as Muslim and Buddhist people gave food, clothes and cash to Muhammad Sakee, chief of the Narathiwat Home for Children and Families, to help 18 Rohingya youths who were brought there.

Shelter staff said health officials in Narathiwat will be contacted to conduct medical check-ups for the Rohingya.

The staff members were concerned about their mental condition as many of them were traumatised from horrendous memories of their hometowns in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Muhammad Sabare, a 14-year-old Rohingya boy, led his group to pray for the donors' prosperity in return.

Through translators, Muhammad pleaded with Thai authorities to help the Rohingya as he and his family were separated for more than two months. He also thanked Thai people who provided them with help. Close to 1,000 Rohingya have been detained in Thailand.

At the Trang Shelter for Children and Families, Trang Hospital officers yesterday performed medical check-ups for 12 Rohingya children and one adult there.

Most of them were found to be malnourished and some had sustained injuries during their long journey.

In Yala, Thai Buddhists and Muslims delivered food, money, clothes and other necessities to the office of Young Muslim Association of Thailand (YMAT) in the province's municipality.

The association is scheduled to provide all the donated goods to Rohingya migrants in Songkhla's Sadao district today.

Abdul Aziz Tadaein, head of the human rights section of the YMAT, said the association had previously helped the Rohingya.

The group also delivered money for Rohingya people in Myanmar, he said, adding that the association's representatives will travel to Myanmar next month to give more help.

Mr Abdul urged Thai authorities not to send the Rohingya migrants back to Myanmar.

He said it would be better to set up a temporary shelter for them during the time they are seeking asylum in the third countries.

At the Pattani Shelter for Children and Families, streams of people have donated food for 22 Rohingya migrants at the facility.

Thakorn Hemvichien, chief of the shelter, told donors it was better to give cash instead of food as the centre already provides food which properly suits Rohingya people's needs.

Meanwhile, Bang Klam police station in Songkhla has supported the 21 confined Rohingya migrants with activities along with villagers.

The move was agreed by a joint panel of Bang Klam police and villagers, Pol Col Suriya Panyamang, the station chief, said. They all agreed that Rohingya migrants were not wrongdoers, but victims, so they should be allowed to live outside of the cells under supervision, Pol Col Suriya said.

Rohingya will help renovate a deserted section of police accommodation together with the villagers so they can live there, Pol Col Suriya said, adding the Rohingya love the activities.

Another 40 Rohingya will be transferred from other police stations to Bang Klam as there is still plenty of accommodation for them here, he said.

Qutub Shah
RB News
18.1.2013

(Edited by Mayu Thit Sar)

Maungdaw: Nasaka commander extorted 3.8 million Kyats from 4 Rohingyas detained earlier. Major Win Hlaing, commander of Border Security Force (Nasaka) Region 5 Ngakura, eventually, released four Rohingyas detained by extorting 3.8 million Kyats. The four miserable victims are:

1. Mohammed Hashim s/o Ferdan, 16
2. Mohammed Ali s/o Abdul Hamid, 23
3. Mohammed Hashim s/o Lalo, 17
4. Mohammed Ayas s/o Kalameah, 18

These ill-luck victims are of those who were arrested on Friday, January 12, 2013, at 8:30pm, from their respective shops in Kyat Yoe Pyin market during Nasaka’s raid on the market. There are some other detainees who are not released as they are unable to provide the sum demanded by Major Win Hlaing. But, the goods worth millions of Kyats looted from their shops are not returned back.

On January 16 at 10:00 am, in Nasaka Region 7, Zaw Matat [Lambagona] village tract, Hinthara (Honsara) village, Maungdaw, Nasaka in collaboration with Rakhines destroyed the village mosque and its attached Madrasah (Arabic School). They have been destroying and burning homes since the violence outbreak to date. Since few days they have been cutting trees and bamboos and knocking out the roots to make the land plain. They are preparing it for Rakhine settlements.

“Rakhines are living in both countries, Bangladesh and Burma. They have no problem in crossing the border. As the officials here are Rakhine Buddhists, now they are planning to bring their relatives from Bangladesh and settle in our lands. They already brought many during these days. Previously, Ex-General Khin Nyunt brought many from central Burma who are jobless. Nasaka confiscated our lands and handed over to them. As the government wants to drive us out from Arakan, they are doing so according to their plan. Here is no law for us.” said by a resident of Maungdaw to RB News.

Mrauk-U: On January 16, two penurious Rohingya men, Muktar s/o Abdu Shukkur and Kalameya s/o Muhammed Ali from Haung Tawk village tract, Mrauk-U Township, went to Fifarang village tract to sell religious books and perfume in the market for their survival. Unfortunately, seeing those selling books and perfumes, a wild military person, named Tun Naing from Battalion No. 378 approached them and began to tear the pages of the religious books, thrown, kicked and treaded it insolently. Then, he tortured the two persons so vehemently that they could not return to their village again and were lethally injured. The military threw them there in the market. When then military left from the place, some people from Fifarang took them up and brought to one’s house for first aids.

M.S. Anwar 
RB News 
January 18, 2013 

Maung Daw, Arakan: Today, at 10:30PM (Myanmar Standard Time), around 15 Rakhine Extremists from the downtown of Maung Daw came to the Village of Baggona together with a few Police officers and threw two corpses of Rakhines away at the Baazar of Bagonna. The two corpses were brought by themselves. And so, they are trying to create violence against Rohingya villagers again and destabilize the village by such brainless and malicious attempts. 

“We have heard that the villagers informed the NaSaKa officer responsible for the security of the region, Captain Myo Htaik Aung, the head of the Maggyi NaSaKa Camp of the NaSaKa Area No.7. According to the villagers, he came to the place of incident and said that he will try to sort it out the soonest possible and make the situation peaceful. He also said that he came to know that the corpses had been brought by the Rakhine extremists. But the villagers are really afraid. 

The Rakhine extremists are still at the place in Baggona and trying to create troubles for Rohingya villagers. These Rakhine extremists and Police in Maung Daw (Note: most of the Police officers in Maung Daw are Rakhine themselves.) do not want to see the village as well as the whole Arakan stabilized and peaceful. That’s why they are creating troubles for Rohingyas and treating the corpses of their own people like animals. They are being cooperated by the newly selected administrator of the village, Ba’ Tuan Aung. He is Bangladeshi Rakhine who settled in Kantayar village in 1970s” said a Rohingya Elder from a nearby village. 

It has been several times that Rakhine extremists have attempted to instigate violence whenever the situation in Arakan anywhere seemed peaceful. There is a reason for it. The reason is they want to have to an independent and exclusive Rakhine nation out of Myanmar. The more Arakan destabilizes the easier their tasks.

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"Mistake Correction: It was only one corpse, not two. It was a reporting mistake. Our apologies for that. 

Update: The Rakhine man, whose corpse was used by other Rakhine extremists as a tool to trigger violence, was died in hospital because of disease. Rakhine extremists insulted his dead body by using it for a crime. 

Rakhine extremists could not achieve what they had expected as the NaSaKa Captain Myo Htaik Aung was able to take in-time action."
(Photo - Phuket Wan)
The Nation
January 18, 2013

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday visited the ethnic Rohingyas who are taking shelter at a police station in Songkhla province.Bjorn Rahm, an ICRC detention delegate met a group of 20 Rohingyas at Hat Yai police station where they are being detained.

Members of the group have been rounded up in the province since January 13.

A source said that ICRC staff met the group in the detention room and asked about their lives in Myanmar before fleeing to Thailand as well as their current living conditions. 

The ICRC seemed happy with the Thai authority's care of the Rohingyas including the clean rooms. Basic necessities would be provided to the group by the ICRC pending legal procedures.

According to reports on Thursday, a total of 897 Rohinyas have now emerged and asked for help from the authorities in the southern provinces of Songkhla, Narathiwat, Trang, Pattani and Pangna.

Many more are believed to be hiding in the mountains between Songkhla and Satun.

The Thai government earlier agreed to let the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have access to Rohingya refugees and approved temporary assistance for a group discovered hiding in Songkhla until their status is determined.

The Rohingya from the Rakhine State in western Myanmar lost their rights to citizenship and property in 1982 by legislation that did not include them in that country’s recognised ethnic minority groups.

Last year, the Rohingya were the target of ethnic clashes in Rakhine that left more than 100 dead and 115,000 displaced.
(Photo - Phuket Wan)
Bangkok Post
January 18, 2013

BANGKOK - The Rohingya people who were smuggled into Thailand will be subjected to Thai laws but will be treated in accordance with international human rights standards, Foreign Ministry spokesman Manasvi Srisodapol said on Friday. 

Mr Manas, the Department of Information director-general, said the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN refugee have offered their assistance. 

The government also intends to consult with Muslim leaders on how to best address the problem in the long-run, he said. 

Sunai Phasuk, senior researcher on Thailand in Human Rights Watch's Asia division, said many Rohingya people are migrating because they have been denied citizenship in Myanmar and Bangladesh. 

Mr Sunai is urging the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to press Myanmar into granting citizenship to the minority ethnic group. 

However, it might be difficult to pressure Bangladesh, which is controlled by a totalitarian regime, he added. 

Asked about the UN's proposal for a Rohingya refugee camp in Thailand, Mr Sunai said it was more likely such facility would be located in Malaysia or Indonesia. 

Wisut Binlaatah, director of the Sheikhul Islam Office in the South, said the Rohingya refugees will be assisted in two phases. 

First, the Thai public will be asked to donate food and clothing. In the long term, the office will call on the Thai government to encourage Myanmar to address its ethnic conflicts. 

Unless the situation settles and there is peace in Myanmar, Thailand should not look to deporting them back, Wisut added. He also asked all Muslim countries to offer asylum to the Rohingyas. 

M.S. Anwar
RB News
January 18, 2013

Maung Daw, Arakan: Yesterday, at 9:30PM, NaSaKas (Border Security Force) from the Sub-Camp based at the bridge of Gawdusara village arrested two Rohingyas Youths at their early 20s for no reasons. 

The two Rohingyas are from the Soilla village of Gawdusara village tract and their names are:

  1. Rahmatullah S/o Hussain Ahmed 
  2. Tahir S/o Kamal 
"According to the villagers, they were arrested just because NaSaKas wanted to extort money from them. They were arrested while they were having rest after their prayers. When the villagers went for their rescue, NaSaKas started firing at the villagers and did so at least 50 times. No villager was injured but the two Rohingya youths were inhumanely dragged to the NaSaKa sub-camp. 

This camp is under the commandment of the NaSaKa Captain Myo Htaik Aung at the Maggyi Chaung Camp in the NaSaKa Area No. 7. It was said that the lower level NaSaKas arrested them without the order of the said captain. However, the two Rohingyas have not been released yet" said a Rohingya from a nearby village on the condition of anonymity. 

On daily basis, there are arbitrary arrests and tortures of innocent Rohingyas and extortion of money and imprisoning them for the lame reasons. It can be with or without the permission of higher authority but innocent Rohingyas are suffering too much under the hands of the evil authority in Arakan. 


The Nation
January 18, 2013

Ministries to discuss whether to set up a camp, Chalerm says

Relief operations by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help Rohingya migrants are set to begin in earnest now that Thai authorities have given the go-ahead, agency spokeswoman Vivian Tan said yesterday.

The announcement came as officials detained another 60 Rohingya yesterday. The migrants were found on a boat off Ranong's Muang district that was attempting to dock. The new arrivals bring to 917 the number of Rohingya who have entered Thailand illegally from Myanmar in recent weeks.

While the government works out operational measures, the UNHCR will start by interviewing the 857 Myanmar-based exiles and take other measures to verify details provided by them. In the meantime, the UNHCR will decide what steps to take and in which areas help is most needed, before finally providing full-scale assistance, Tan said.

Asked about the possibility of setting up a camp to temporarily hold the 857 Rohingyas on Thai soil, Tan said the UNHCR would not go beyond frameworks to be established by the government.

Former Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan commented that Thailand should not rush in its handling of the issue by being overly focused on immediate repatriation. He warned that this would affect the Kingdom's positive image in the international community as a country with a history of extending hospitality to refugees fleeing violence. Resolving the problems facing Myanmar's 800,000 Rohingyas would ultimately have to involve the Myanmar authorities.

Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung, who has responsibility for internal security issues, said the Foreign Ministry had been assigned to interview the Rohingyas, and that it was important for Thailand to handle the issue carefully, on humanitarian and immigration grounds.

Chalerm said he had no concerns that the Muslim Rohingyas would get involved with the insurgency in the deep South. "What is problematic is their [possible] future illegal entry into Thailand in the long term. This is a very delicate matter and Thailand needs to protect its interests while not violating human rights," he said.

Asked about the possibility of setting up a camp to accommodate the newly arrived immigrants, Chalerm said he would need to discuss the matter with the Interior and Foreign ministries, along with security officials, before making a decision.

"We would need to find third countries who are ready to accommodate [the Rohingya], possibly Muslim countries, as they have abundant accommodation and funding," he said.

Four of the Rohingya exiles yesterday staged a protest outside the Foreign Ministry compound asking Thailand not to repatriate the group. They plan to submit their request to the British, US, Australian and Malaysian embassies.

Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul had received the request, and was expected to consider it at a ministry meeting next week.

The four also called on Thai authorities to search for a number of their fellow migrants who had gone missing during their journey to Thailand, which took them through jungles and across the sea. 

The Sheikhul Islam Office, the Central Islamic Council of Thailand and the provincial Islamic councils in the five deep South provinces issued an open letter calling for sympathy from Thai people and assigning the council in Songkhla to act as centre of assistance. Aid would be distributed from there to all locations where the 857 currently reside.

The statement called on Thai authorities not to repatriate the Rohingya to Myanmar, while welcoming donations to an account named Assistance Fund for Rohingyas, account number 934-1-48557-6, at the Islamic Bank of Thailand's Hat Yai branch.

Islamic spiritual leader Chularatchamontri Aziz Pitakkumpon cries while speaking to police about the Rohingya migrants in Hat Yai district of Songkhla province yesterday.
Bangkok Post
January 18, 2013

More than 800 Rohingya migrants detained in Thailand should be given shelter and sent to a third country rather than being returned to Myanmar, an Islamic group said yesterday.

The Central Islamic Council of Thailand said it would propose the central mosque of Songkhla province be used as a main shelter for Muslim migrants who have not been charged with any criminal offences.

Police detention centres have become overcrowded due to the large number of Rohingya migrants being detained, the council said.

Several hundred Rohingya have been detained in Songkhla, Narathiwat, Trang, Pattani and Phangnga during the past couple of weeks after they attempted to pass through Thailand into Malaysia.

Fifty-two more were detained yesterday by marine police at a deserted house in Ban Tam Ma Lang Nua village of Muang district in Satun, a province bordering Songkhla.

Two of the migrants detained were women and one was a child.

The latest detention brings the total number of Rohingya held to 949 as of yesterday.

Two Rohingya migrants were earlier found in the forest on the Songkhla and Satun border.

Local administration authorities, meanwhile, are searching for more migrants believed to have gone into hiding after the previous crackdowns.

The Central Islamic Council also encouraged Muslim nations, international organisations and the United Nations agencies on human rights to discuss with a third-party country the possibility of granting asylum to the Rohingya migrants.

The council also called on these organisations to pressure the Myanmar government to recognise the citizenship of other Rohingya people who remain in the country.

Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said the ministry expected to come up with a conclusion on the Rohingya migrant issue this week.

It would then discuss with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees the best course of action.

He said the government would provide assistance to the migrants on a humanitarian basis and would not extradite them until the process of verifying their nationality is completed.
(Photo - Phuket Wan)
Bangkok Post
January 18, 2013

When nearly 850 Rohingya boat people were rescued from their secret shelters in Songkhla's Sadao district this week, the government finally did the right thing by providing them with humanitarian care and allowing them to have access to international assistance.

Up until this week, the country's main policy toward Rohingya boat people was to give them food, water, and fuel before putting them back out to sea so they can continue their journey to Malaysia, which is their main destination, or to deport them by land back to Myanmar.

By chasing them away, either by sea or by land, this policy is equivalent to pushing the Rohingya back into the open arms of human traffickers. If they cannot pay up, they risk imprisonment, torture, or even death back in Myanmar.

It is therefore good news that the government finally responded to calls from human rights groups and the international community to give humanitarian assistance to the Muslim-minority Rohingya who fled ethnic-cleansing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

There are many woman and children among the rescued Rohingya. This clearly shows that this latest influx of Rohingya boat people who have reached Thai shores are war refugees and asylum seekers. They must be treated accordingly. Thailand, however, still considers them illegal immigrants, which makes them criminals in the eyes of Thai law which subjects them to arrest, imprisonment and deportation.

The Yingluck government made the right decision not to deport them and allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to interview the boat people in order to determine who they are, where they came from, and what they need.

This assessment process is crucial. The records will help ensure that the assistance meets their needs and help the authorities with later identification when the same Rohingya are smuggled back into Thailand again.

There is no such assessment system at present. This laxity made it easy for corrupt officials to assist human traffickers by sending the Rohingya asylum seekers across the border and allowing them back again, which essentially makes them part of the human trafficking racket.

Amid trade sanction threats from the US and EU, the Yingluck government has sent the right message to the international community by starting to take human traffickers to task. But the government needs to do much more to prove its commitment to battling human trafficking.

To start with, a local politician in Songkhla and two Rohingya men wanted by the police are just small fry in the Rohingya human trafficking racket. Even so, they have not yet been arrested. The big fish remain unscathed. So do the corrupt officials. As long as these key players are spared, then the stream of Rohingya boat people won't stop.

Apart from getting real with the human trafficking rackets and corrupt officials, the government must stop viewing the Rohingya as a national security threat and set up a system to identify their identities and their needs so they can go to third countries or return home.

To help the Rohingya, the international community must also lend a hand, not only by financially supporting humanitarian assistance, but also by exerting pressure on the Myanmar government to stop ethnic violence in Rakhine. If the international community continues to focus on Thailand's policy shortcomings while turning a blind eye to the ongoing atrocities against the Rohingya so it can still enjoy reaping benefits from investment opportunities in Myanmar, there is one word to describe this gap between words and actions. It is called hypocrisy.
Rohingya boatpeople were quickly transferred to police trucks yesterday (Photo - Phuket Wan)
Chutima Sidasathian & Alan Morison 
Phuket Wan
January 17, 2013 

PHUKET: A group of 88 Rohingya boatpeople were apprehended and brought to shore north of Phuket yesterday under the gaze of the international media, the BBC and Aljazeera. 

The boatpeople, including eight children and 10 women, will be assessed as Thailand reviews its policy towards hundreds of Rohingya still arriving by sea or recently ''rescued'' from people traffickers' secret camps. 

One pregnant woman and her husband were sent to a small local hospital after the boat was spotted by local villagers off Pra Thong Island, near the large fishing township of Kuraburi in Phang Nga province.

The others in the boat were transferred to Kuraburi Police Station where the BBC, Aljazeera and Phuketwan photographed and interviewed them. 

What emerged was a saga of enduring persecution by the Burmese Army. These people are all neighbors from the village of Debeng, near the town of Sittwe, where so-called ''community violence'' has targetted the oppressed and stateless Muslim minority. 

Burmese soldiers and local police held the Rohingya of Debeng powerless at gunpoint while their Buddhist neighbors torched their homes, the newly-arrived boatpeople said today. 


Migrants thought to be from Myanmar's minority Rohingya are pictured at a detention centre after they were rounded up in raids on hidden camps in the Thai south. (Photo - AFP/MADAREE TOHLALA)

AFP
January 17, 2013

BANGKOK: More than 130 Rohingya migrants have landed on Thai soil in less than 24 hours, a local official said Thursday, as the kingdom grapples with a flurry of arrivals from the Myanmar minority group.

Some 88 Rohingya came ashore at Phra Thong island in the south of the country on Wednesday in full view of television cameras, according to Kuraburi district chief for Manit Pienthong.

Another 48 landed on the Andaman sea island on Thursday morning claiming they were Royingya, Manit said, adding they were sent to immigration officials in the provincial capital of Phangnga to start the process of returning them to Myanmar.

Over the last week hundreds of Myanmar migrants have been arrested in police sweeps of remote areas in rubber plantations near the border with Malaysia, leading the UNHCR to try to confirm whether any of them plan to seek asylum.

The UN's refugee agency said Wednesday it had received permission from Thailand to visit about 850 people, many thought to be Rohingya, held after raids on camps in the Thai south.

Thousands of Rohingya, a minority group not recognised as citizens in Myanmar, have fled communal unrest in the country's western Rakhine state, heading to Thailand and other countries.

Many take to makeshift boats and drift south to the Thai coast.

Rights groups have criticised Thailand for failing to help Rohingya who reach its territory, instead pushing them back to Myanmar or into neighbouring countries including Malaysia, which offers sanctuary to the minority group.

The Nation
January 17, 2013

Envoys hold conference to organise support; UNHCR granted permission to visit refugees

Envoys of more than 20 countries yesterday joined a teleconference that was held to address the grievances of and get help for more than 850 Rohingya people. These illegal migrants were arrested in Thailand's South earlier this month.

The conference focused on immediate assistance and the legal procedures involved.

At the teleconference were representatives of various countries including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Australia, the United States, New Zealand as well as the European Union.

In a related development, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) disclosed it had already received the Thai authorities' permission to access these Rohingya refugees.

"The Thai authorities have agreed in principle to give us access," said Golam Abbas, UNHCR's Representative ad interim in Thailand. "We would like this to happen as soon as possible, so that we can jointly look at their immediate humanitarian and protection needs."

"If there are people seeking asylum among the group, they should have access to a mechanism to assess their material and protection needs. This could be through Thailand's existing Provincial Admissions Board or another agreed arrangement. We are ready to provide our support and expertise as needed," he said.

Some 115,000 Rohingya people remain internally displaced within Myanmar's Rakhine state following inter-communal violence in June and October last year. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority in Myanmar.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Tuesday her government would provide humanitarian care for the refugees and instructed the Foreign Ministry to work with the UN on the issue.

The UN said it welcomed public assurances from Yingluck that the group would receive temporary assistance in Thailand in respect of the principle of non-refoulement. This principle states that under international customary law, no one should be sent back to a place where his or her life and freedom could be endangered. UNHCR has sought access to this group, and cannot confirm their number or identity without first talking to them.

Thailand's Chularatchamontri, the country's Muslim spiritual leader, visited the arrested Rohingya in Songkhla yesterday. With tears in his eyes, he urged authorities to contact a third country where the migrants could get jobs and humanitarian assistance.

"Please don't send them back to Myanmar," he said.

The Burmese Rohingya Association Thailand, at the same time, called on the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) to prevent any deportation of the Rohingya.

"We have never agreed with deportation. Sending the Rohingya back is like sending them to hell," NHRC commissioner Niran Pitakwatchara said.

He also expressed concern that the Rohingya refugees might fall victims to human traffickers.

"We will consult with relevant authorities in a bid to prevent violation of the Rohingya people's rights," Niran said.

Speaking separately, Mamadjorkhid from Myanmar said he could not feel any human dignity in his homeland.

"Soldiers always harassed us. They were always taking away whatever we had in hands or farms," the 24-old-man said. He has now settled down in Thailand's Ranong.

Nobihuzon, 40, said he felt he had no future while living in Rakhine. "Many neighbours felt the same way. So, we pooled the money to buy a fishing trawler and started our boat trip," he said.

It took him more than 20 days to reach Thailand, where he had now lived for more than 22 years.

"I can live without fear now. I have already got myself registered as an alien worker," Nobihuzon said.

Qutub Shah
RB News
January 16, 2013

(Edited by Mayu Thit Sar)

Maungdaw: January 14, at midnight, in Kyauk Pando (Shita Furikka) village of Southern Maungdaw Township, the villager Eliyas s/o Habiullah was arrested from his house by the chief of Kyauk Pando Nasaka (Border Security Force) Camp. He was severely tortured soon after he got arrested although he didn’t know what went wrong with him. He was in the lock-up of Nasaka since then. It was his luck that he was able to convince the in-charge of the lock-up to release him after promising for a ransom.

Eliyas secretly ran away from the lock-up. But, unfortunately, he couldn’t get rid of those evil hands yet. The Nasaka came again to his house to arrest him again in the evening on January 15 but he wasn’t at home at that time. By not finding him, the extremist Nasaka arrested his wife, Tasnim d/o Fazal Hoque, 19 and his brother-in-law Abu Bakar and cousin Shafika d/o Oli Ahmed, 18. They were brought to the Nasaka camp in handcuffs.

The cruel and brutal Nasaka kept the two women in the lock-up and forced them to be half naked along with other arrestees torturing, touching and teasing after getting blind drunk. It was good fortune that they were not raped.

According to the report of a villager to RB News, today afternoon, both the women were released after being extorted 100,000 Kyats from each.

Buthidaung: Some police officers from Buthidaung Township went to the house of Shaker s/o Umar Miah from Ward No. 7 (Jabbarfara) for arrestment. Shaker raised a question to the police why would be arrested as he realized that those police came to arrest him. The police gave the false allegation that he helped the robbers and looked after them. Finally, in spite of his penury, he had to pay 500,000 Kyats to the police to save his life from their arrestment and torture.

A resident of Buthidaung told RB News that “We are like a material for making money for the police, military and Nasaka. Actually they are worse than robbers. All cash belong to us are being taken by them. They are arresting Rohingya people without any reason, just to pull the cash from us. I would love to pay them if they beg from us like beggars but now their attitude toward on us is less than robbers.”
By M.S. Anwar
RB Analysis
January 16, 2013

(It is certain that many people will be up against what is going to be written here. However, truths are truths and can no way be hidden. And it is necessary to share them to the honest truth seekers.) 

The violence in Arakan is neither because of Rohingyas (whom Majority Burmese perceive as illegal Bengalis) nor SECTARIAN. It is a systematic pogrom targeted Rohingyas and Kamans (Kamans are also being killed on account of their religion). They, the sons of soils of Arakan, have been scapegoated for different political gains by the respective interest groups. Of all, the two notable interest groups who are striving towards different political goals are none other than Burmese regime and Rakhine Extremists. As for Burmese regime, their basic goal was fulfilled as they could have diverted the attention of the people from the political crises they had been facing before this violence. 

They want to end the violence now but Rakhine extremist political leaders do not let the situation be peaceful by blackmailing the regime to expose their own participation in the pogrom of Rohingyas. It is because they are still striving towards fulfilling their dream of MAHA RAKKHITA NAING NGAN DAW GRI (A Separate and Independent Rakhine Nation) consisting Arakan region from Burma and Chittagong Hill-Tract from Bangladesh. A Burmese friend of mine laughed it out saying “Phyit Naing Ba’ Malla Bya- Can it be possible?” This might sound funny to many people today but tomorrow it can be a reality. But an unreality today can become a reality tomorrow.

Rakhines in Burma and Bangladesh and their Joint Movements: There are more than 1 Million Buddhists of different ethnic origin in Bangladesh, whom Burmese Rakhines consider parts of Rakhine groups. They are Marma (known as Rakhine in Burma), Barua (Mramma Gri or Myammar Gyi) and Chakma (Theks) etc (in short, Jammu Hill tract Tribes) in Bangladesh. Of them, BARUAs and Theks are linguistically similar to Rohingyas over to Rakhines (Marmas). Besides, Baruas are more similar to Rohingyas in looks and physical appearances. However, Burmese Rakhines have persuaded and recruited more people from other Buddhist minorities of Bangladesh on the ground of the religion and have sown a separatist tendency in their minds. 

Therefore, with the exception of few, the Rakhine political parties or armed groups, media groups, woman organizations, youth groups, academics and individuals that work not only against the interest of Burma and Bangladesh but also against Rohingyas and Kamans in cooperation with the terrorist outfit of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) in Bangladesh are: Arakan League for Democracy (ALD), Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), Democratic Party of Arakan (DPA), Rakhine Women Union (RWU), All Arakan Student and Youth Council (AASYC) and Dhaka based Narinjara News Agency. Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) in cooperation with Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) is also responsible for mass killings of Rohingyas. Look at the following document how ALP has broken their own treaty with Rohingyas and is trying to have an exclusively Rakhine nation.



Now, the readers probably have a clearer picture of Rakhine movements and why they are trying to eradicate Rohingyas, whom once they themselves recognized. 

Regarding the recent movements of Rakhine extremists, Saw Mra Raza Linn lives in Dhaka and is the President of the Dhaka based RWU and a central executive member of ALP. She married to a Bangladeshi Rakhine Buddhist living in Dhaka. He is the founder and head of Rakhine Development Foundation (RDF), an NGO registered by Bangladesh government. Her husband’s sister, Mra Aye Thein from Barisal of Baggona, is a selected and appointed (not elected) member of parliament of Awami League. 

Saw Mra Raza Linn
On 27th August 2012, she together with other six people from ALP and UPDF illegally crossed the Naff River, the Teknaf-Maung Daw border and entered Burma. They were given a warm welcome by the Rakhine extremists and separatists in Arakan. In Akyab (Sittwe), they held several secrets meetings with the Rakhine Buddhist Extremists such as Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP). They have reached to an agreement with Burmese government to open an ALP liaison office in Arakan. From Arakan, she went to Rangoon (the second capital of Burma) to meet with higher government officials and other members of RNDP. The question is: how could a woman living in Dhaka and known for working against Burmese government for a long time illegally cross Bangladesh-Burma border, enter Burma and go to Rangoon to meet the higher officials of Burmese government? 

The Meeting in Chiangmai, Thailand: From 11th to 14th January 2013, a SECRET meeting among the Rakhine extremists and separatists was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The members of Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) from Burma, Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), members of the other Rakhine parties mentioned above and prominent members of Bangladesh Rakhine Buddhist Separatists participated in the meeting. It was the first ever meeting after 2004, where different Rakhine groups from different countries attended the meeting. The press statements from the meeting and other details are as follow. 









(Press Release on Arakan National Workshop and Paper to present at the Arakan National Workshop by AHRDO are Burmese language. We are inconvenient to translate them into English lest the writings would become too long. But by looking at the rebuttals to the allegations made in the statement, one can guess what the original statements are.) 

Rebuttals to the Allegations: 

  1. Rakhines have the rights to create their own destiny in unity BUT doing so can’t damage other human beings.
  2. The formation of the committee to unite Rakhine people is welcome unless the committee tries to implement the fascist policies.
  3. If Rohingyas are illegal invading Bengalis, then what are you? Rakhines live in both Bangladesh and Burma. They are not Rohingyas who are coming in into Arakan but leaving Arakan. Rakhines are certainly sneaking into Arakan taking advantage of the presence of their people in the administration.
    Look their ALP’s agreement shown above (because Rakhines, today, in their fanaticism, refuse to accept what the international scholars say on Rohingyas.) If 1982 Citizenship Law (an illegal and black law that violates several internal laws, human rights and norms) is to be implemented, let it be implemented to all Burmese people including Rakhine themselves. Stop using the term “Bengali” for Rohingya; it is not the identity Rohingya belongs to. If you use such, Rohingya will use your historical term “Magh,” which you are ashamed of.
  4. It is up to the Burmese government to approve the decisions by Rakhine extremists taken in the Rathedaung meeting from September 25-26, 2012. No matter whether it is approved or not, Adolf Hitler would certainly be happy to see his ardent followers in Arakan, Burma were he alive.
  5. All the innocent Rakhines should be protected from any kinds of harms anywhere in the world. But do not lie that they are facing threats both in Burma and in abroad.
  6. Demand to stop the offensive war against Kachins is more than welcome unless it is for your own political benefits. 
The meeting was held in Thailand rather in Bangladesh or in Burma. Why should they do so unless it was against the interests of both Bangladesh and Burma? It is worth wondering why Burmese government allowed RNDP members to attend at a meeting which was itself against the government! It is worth wondering whether Bangladesh government allowed Burma born Saw Mra Raza Linn to hold Bangladesh Passport and travel to Thailand to attend the meeting which was against the interest of Bangladesh! The respective governments have to answer for these. Besides, it is up to the readers to wonder why Kritine Gould, CEO at PACRIM Research Associates, Counterterrorism Plans Officer at US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), arranged such a fascist meeting and sponsored those who are up for the ethnic cleansing of a particular minority. Isn’t that a serious matter to think of?? 

Wake up Bangladeshis, Burmese!! It is very unfortunate that neither Burma nor Bangladesh understands the separatist tendency and long term ambition of these Rakhine war criminals. To stop the Rakhine province to secede from Burma, Rakhine leadership is right that it is only Rohingyas that can help Burma stay together. It is important to know that Rakhines are only 5% of Burmese population but are 30% in the Burmese administration including army. If they go to jungle, it will be a major challenge for Burma. In addition, there are Rakhine militant groups such as ALP and Arakan Army working for the same purpose. 

Similarly for Bangladesh, research shows, the rebellions in Chittagong Hill Tracts such as UPDF has been instigated largely by the Rakhine separatists from Burma. Some innocent looking Rakhine monks were found to carry weapons in Bangladesh. For its internal security, it would be good for Bangladesh to monitor these war criminals and their movements within Bangladesh. For the Rohingyas, if the international community ignores the killings of Rohingyas by the Rakhine extremist leaders, they and the international community must have the right to arrest them and send them to the ICC and stop their criminal bugging in that part of the world. Surely, if timely actions are not taken, there is a costly price to pay by both Bangladesh and Burma for silence! The heavy price will be in the form of losing Chittagong hill tracts and Arakan respectively to the Rakhine separatists. 

Rohingyas’ Request: Rohingya community would like to urge the extremists in Rakhine community to abandon extremism and exclusiveness policies, not to manipulate Buddhism for their own interests, to recognize and respect the differences and to cooperate with their sister community forgetting what has happened in the past and stopping what is happening now for the sake of the peace, tranquility and the developments in the region. If they two communities cooperate, they can work together to achieve an autonomous or federal state within the union of Burma. Let’s not separate Arakan as it is not a preferable idea. 

(Note: Neither all Rakhines nor all Buddhists in Burma and Bangladesh are extremists. My writings here do not have anything to do with the peace-loving Buddhists, Rakhines and other communities.

The writings, here, are to an extent inspired by the writings of Dr. Abid Bahar and a Writer named Soe Min.) 

M.S. Anwar is an activist and student in Malaysia. The writings here are of the author’s own and hence do not reflect the editorial policy of RB.



ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA

PRESS RELEASE

(14 January 2013)

UN intervention is most urgent to protect the Rohingya 

After June 2012 deadly violence in Arakan, the human rights situation of the Rohingya has become more deteriorating with story of “dead and dying”. Campaigns of genocide and extermination against them are carried out day in, day out. Rape, murder, arbitrary arrest, looting, extortion, criminal atrocities, hunger and diseases are persistent and widespread. Their burned down and depopulated villages are being populated with Buddhist settlers warmly invited from within and from Bangladesh. These are the main ‘push factors’ that cause the migration of Rohingya to neighbouring countries for which the Burmese government and Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) with Dr. Aye Maung are fully responsible. 

Most Rohingyas, including those about 140,000 internally displaced during the carnage, have nothing to eat and nowhere to go and are dying of hunger, malnutrition and diseases. Humanitarian aids to the Rohingya displacement camps and areas have been systematically blocked by the local administration dominated by RNDP, with organized gangs of Buddhist Rakhine. It is almost unprecedented that some 50 drinking water ponds of the Rohingya villages have been poisoned by the Buddhist Rakhine and the security forces.

No school or madrassa education is available for the Rohingya children in villages and displacement camps. Most of the mosques are still closed down, and funeral prayers for the deceased persons are disallowed without payment. Villagers and Maulvis (religious persons) were tortured for performing funeral services. In Shweza village of Maungdaw NaSaKa intelligence officer Aung Naing from Outpost No. 14 under Sector No.6 is extorting Kyat 10,000 to 25,000 for each funeral. 

NaSaKa security forces are conducting sporadic surveys coercing the Rohingya villagers to write ‘Bengali’ as their racial name in place of ‘Rohingya’ against their will. Some villagers were arrested or tortured for opposing their dictation while others escaped away.

Since June 2012, an estimated 13,000 Rohingya took perilous voyages towards Malaysia and more than 500 boat people are missing or have drowned after several boats sinking, while a number of them ended up in jails and detention in countries within the region. During recent weeks Thai security forces rescued 773 beleaguered Rohingya in Songkhla province whereas another group of 73 rescued Rohingya are reported under threat of ‘push back’ to Burma where they face persecution. The boat people are often victimized at the hands of the human traffickers who used to sell them to slavery for 60,000 to 70,000 Bhat ($1,975 to $ 2,304) per person, particularly to fishing industry.

Rohingya tragedies and boat people disaster have got out of hand causing serious regional problem with international perspective. Primarily the Rohingya problem needs to be resolved within Burma, but there is no change of attitude of the ruling civil-military hybrid government towards them. In the absence of national protection the responsibility to protect them weighs on the international community.

We, therefore, request the United Nations and its Members of the Security Council to send UN Peacekeeping Force to Arakan in order to protect the helpless Rohingya people; and to constitute a UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate the international crimes committed against Rohingya and bring the perpetrators to justice.

For more information, please contact:

Nurul Islam: + 44 07947854652 
Aman Ullah + 880 1558486910


Bangkok Post
January 16, 2013

BANGKOK - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Wednesday it had permission from Thailand to access some 850 people, many thought to be from Myanmar's Rohingya minority, held after raids on hidden camps in Thailand's far South. 

Hundreds of migrants have been arrested in the past week in police sweeps on remote areas in rubber plantations in Songkhla province near the border with Malaysia, leading the UNHCR to seek to confirm whether any of them plan to seek asylum. 

"The Thai authorities have agreed in principle to give us access to this group," Vivian Tan, spokeswoman for the UNHCR office, told AFP. 

"There are likely to be Rohingya among them, but we can't confirm their identity without us first talking to them and doing a preliminary assessment." 

She said no date had been agreed yet, but that the UN was pushing to do the interviews "as soon as possible". 

Thousands of Muslim-minority Rohingya have fled communal unrest in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine, heading to Thailand and other countries. 

Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims have left at least 180 people dead in the state since June, and displaced more than 110,000 others, mostly Rohingya. 

Myanmar views the roughly 800,000 Rohingya in Rakhine as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and denies them citizenship. 

The UN, which has called Rohingya one of the world's most persecuted peoples, has urged Myanmar's neighbours to open their borders to people escaping the communal violence. 

Although tensions have eased since a fresh outbreak of killings in October, concerns have grown about the fate of asylum-seekers setting sail in overcrowded boats. 

Thailand has faced pressure from rights groups to do more to help Rohingya migrants who reach its territory. The country has been accused of pushing them into neighbouring countries including Malaysia, which offers them sanctuary. 

Human Rights Watch has said women and children are increasingly among the boatloads of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar.


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