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  • #46
    Malaysia calls on Burma to stop oppressing Rohingyas
    14 May 2015


    A Rohingya woman holds her child as she looks out from her shelter at a displacement camp in Sittwe, Arakan State.
    (PHOTO: AFP) AFP2,000 boat people have been rescued, swum to shore or turned away in Malaysia and Indonesia since last weekend.
    Migrants groups warn that repelling boats could amount to a death sentence for people already at risk from starvation and disease after long weeks at sea, with recent arrivals saying many of their fellow passengers had died on the sea passage, their bodies thrown overboard.

    Migrants-rights advocates also say thousands more men, women and children are believed stuck out at seaAFP
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    • #47
      Myanmar Official Denies Reports of Rohingyas Among Rescued Boat-PeopleMalaysian maritime police inspect one of the boats which carried illegal Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants in Langkawi, May 12, 2015.
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      • #48
        I was sold as slave in Thailand, says Rohingya man
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        • #49

          Sunday May 17, 2015

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          • #50
            New Myanmar population law targets Rohingya minority, rights groups say
            May 24, 2015


            Myanmar has enacted a population law that rights groups said on Sunday targets persecuted Rohingya Muslims, a minority group at the centre of a migration crisis that has seen thousands flee the country.
            PHOTO: AFP

            YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar has enacted a population law that rights groups said on Sunday targets persecuted Rohingya Muslims, a minority group at the centre of a migration crisis that has seen thousands flee the country.

            The new Myanmar legislation would allow regional governments to introduce family planning regulations to lower birth rates in their states. The state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper reported last Saturday that President Thein Sein approved the law on May 19.

            Under the legislation, the local authorities can survey their regions to determine if "resources are unbalanced because of a high number of migrants in the area, a high population growth rate and a high birth rate", it said. They can then ask the central government to impose laws making it compulsory for women to wait "at least 36 months" after giving birth before having another child, Myanma Alinn said. The consequences for breaking the birth-spacing rules are unclear.

            Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the new law clearly targets Muslim Rohingyas who live in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, where they are not recognised as citizens and instead referred to as "Bengalis" or illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. "This will seriously worsen ethnic and religious tensions. We fully expect that the Muslim Rohingya in Rakhine state will be target number one of this legislation," said HRW deputy Asia director Phil Robertson.

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            • #51
              Roundup: No more Rohingyas allowed in Thai waters: premier
              Editor: ying

              BANGKOK, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Thailand will no longer accept Rohingya migrants who may be sailing in the Andaman Sea and tempted to enter the country illegally, said Thai Premier Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday.

              Thai authorities including the navy will not allow any boat people who may have left Myanmar's Rakhine state seeking to enter Thai territorial waters, the premier said.

              The premier made his comments following an exodus of the Rohingyas into Thai territory since earlier this month, prompting the military-led government to crack down on suspected human traffickers blamed for illegal entries of the migrants.

              The Thai authorities have set up "floating" units in the Andaman Sea to see to it that no more seagoing migrants will encroach upon the Thai territorial waters, he said.

              Thousands of the migrants had reportedly been trafficked from the sea to Thailand's southern areas of Padang Besar which shares border with Malaysia's Perlis state.

              In addition, a makeshift graveyard for the remains of more than 30 deceased Rohingyas was found near the Thai-Malaysian border in Padang Besar area earlier this month.

              The Rohingyas' destinations were believed to be inside Malaysia where they might be finally employed as cheap labor in rubber and palm plantations.

              "Only those who may be found sickly will be allowed to get ashore for humanitarian reasons and on temporary basis."

              "We will by no means set up a center for those migrants whose illegal entries might possibly otherwise affect the Thais," said Gen. Prayut.

              He confirmed that all the boat people sailing in the Andaman Sea, which accosts several southern Thai provinces, will be kept out of Thai territorial waters, if ever found encroaching again.

              Thai navy patrol units had earlier turned away a boat carrying 100 Rohingyas as they were trying to get ashore in an island off Satun province.

              Others had reportedly gone further down to Malaysian and Indonesian territorial waters and finally driven off.

              Meanwhile, an international forum will be held in the Thai capital on Friday to debate matters pertaining to irregular migrations in the Indian Ocean during which the Thai government's stands will be reconfirmed, according to the premier.

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              • #52
                Rohingya crisis: Myanmar navy lands seized boat with 727 people on island
                31 May 2015

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                Myanmar's navy discovered the boat with 727 migrants off the country's southern coast on Friday, but have since been tight-lipped on the identity of those on board, as well as their fate. Thousands of migrants, many of them Rohingya refugees, are adrift on boats abandoned by traffickers after a recent crackdown in Thailand.

                A boat packed with more than 700 "boat people" seized off Myanmar's coast was stopped on a small island on Saturday, as officials gave mixed signals about its final destination.

                Myanmar's navy discovered the boat with 727 migrants off the country's southern coast on Friday, but have since been tight-lipped on the identity of those on board, as well as their fate.

                Myo Win, the township administrator of Hainggyi Island, in the country's south, told Reuters the boat was taken to nearby Leik Island and the migrants were kept on board while they were provided with food, water and medical help.

                "The boat won't rest at Leik Island tonight... I heard they will be taken to Sittwe or Maungdaw (in Myanmar's Rakhine State), to then be sent to Bangladesh."

                Those on board told officials they had been at sea in three boats since March, during which at least 50 migrants died.



                Officials had on Friday initially labeled those on the boat "Bengalis" - a term used to refer both to stateless Rohingya from Rakhine state, as well as Bangladeshis. The government later said most of those on board are believed to be from Bangladesh.

                The government had initially said it would take the migrants to a navy base on Hainggyi Island, but have since reconsidered their destination, Commander Soe Min, an assistant to Myanmar's navy chief, told Reuters.

                "The navy may take them somewhere further north, such as Sittwe in Rakhine State. We're not even sure yet," Soe Min said.

                The discovery of the boat on Friday came as Myanmar told a 17-nation meeting in Thailand that it was not to blame for the crisis that has seen more than 4,000 desperate Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladeshi migrants take to the seas across Southeast Asia in the last month.

                An additional 2,000 people are believed still adrift after being abandoned by traffickers following a crackdown in Thailand.

                The boat was found in the Andaman Sea on Friday with 608 women, 74 women and 45 children on board, according to Myanmar's Ministry of Information.

                Those on board told officials they had been at sea in three boats since March, during which at least 50 migrants died, the ministry said on its website. The passengers were later abandoned in one boat by traffickers, it said.

                Myanmar has come under heavy criticism for discrimination against the Rohingya. Most of the 1.1 million Rohingya in Myanmar are stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions.

                Almost 140,000 were displaced in deadly clashes with Buddhists in Rakhine State in 2012.

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                • #53
                  Reporters banned from Myanmar migrant island
                  31/05/2015

                  HAIGYI ISLAND (MYANMAR) - Myanmar's navy refused on Sunday to let journalists approach a remote island where more than 700 migrants are said to be held following their rescue last week.


                  A Myanmar navy ship is anchored near Haigyi island, NgaPuTaw Township, Irrawaddy Division on May 30, 2015

                  Reporters have been trying to access Thamee Hla Island at the mouth of the Irrawaddy since the authorities announced that 727 people, including 74 women and 45 children, had been found drifting in a boat off Myanmar's coast and had been taken there.

                  They are part of a recent exodus of persecuted Myanmar Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi economic migrants who have fled the region en masse in a crisis that regional nations have struggled to deal with.

                  Journalists who tried to take small boats out to Thamee Hla Island were being turned around by navy patrol vessels and were ordered to delete any footage on their memory cards, said an AFP reporter on the nearby island of Haigyi.

                  Those returning said they had been ordered to sign documents promising not to try to make the journey again.

                  The navy was unavailable for comment Sunday.

                  Migrant boats are a hugely sensitive topic in Myanmar. Its discovery of two vessels crammed with people in recent weeks has deepened a tug of war between neighbouring Bangladesh and the formerly army-ruled nation over who is responsible for migrants found in the Bay of Bengal.

                  Myanmar refuses to recognise its 1.3 million Rohingya living in the western state of Rakhine as citizens. Instead it refers to them as "Bengalis" and alleges they are illegal immigrants from across the border.

                  They face daily discrimination including controls on their movements, family size and access to jobs, forcing tens of thousands to flee overseas -- usually to Malaysia. That exodus increased dramatically after 2012 when scores were killed in communal bloodletting in Rakhine.

                  Myanmar has been keen to portray those leaving its shores as Bangladeshi economic migrants and rejects widespread criticism that its treatment of the Rohingya is one of the root causes of the current exodus.

                  On Saturday a local official from Haigyi Island said the migrants were all Bangladeshis and would be taken to an area near the Bangladesh border in Rakhine state in the coming days.

                  But Bangladesh has insisted it will not take back any migrants who trace their origin to Myanmar.

                  And because Myanmar authorities refuse to use the term Rohingya, it is difficult to ascertain where exactly the migrants come from.

                  No media or aid group has yet been able to meet the migrants held on Thamee Hla Island to verify where they say they originate from.

                  A lucrative people-smuggling trade has long thrived in the region, largely ignored or colluded at by the authorities. But a recent crackdown by Thai police in the country's deep south threw smuggling networks into chaos as gangmasters abandoned their victims on land and sea.

                  In recent weeks more than 3,500 migrants have turned up on Thai, Malaysian or Indonesian soil and an estimated 2,500 more are still stranded at sea.

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                  • #54
                    500 Immigrants In Danok Waiting To Enter Malaysia

                    KUBANG PASU, June 1 (Bernama) -- About 500 immigrants, believed to be the Rohingyas, are in Danok, Thailand, and believed to be waiting to enter Malaysia.

                    Kubang Pasu District Police chief Supt Abd Rahim Abdullah said the immigrants were believed to be trying to enter the country through Bukit Kayu Hitam.

                    "Instruction has been issued for the General Operations Force, Anti-Smuggling Unit and the Bukit Kayu Hitam Police Station to boost security measures," he told reporters after the Kubang Pasu Police District Headquarters monthly assembly here, Monday.

                    At the event, five journalists were honoured for their contributions. They are Mohd Khairul Fikri Osman, from the Malaysian National news Agency (BERNAMA), Hasnah Jusid (BERNAMA), Oh Chin Eng (The Star), Noor Faizal Ghazali (Sinar Harian) and Ng Eng Boon (Sin Chew Daily).

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                    • #55
                      Rohingya Refugees in Thailand Protesting Against Resettlement to US
                      02.06.2015




                      A group of undocumented Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, rescued by Thailand in the Andaman Sea, launched a protest Tuesday night against resettlement to the United States, local media reported.




                      BANGKOK (Sputnik) According to the Kom Chad Luek Thai daily, the group of refugees, comprising about 94 people, have cut electrical wires in the building where they are housed, and tried to break through locked doors and windows. Around 50 policemen were present at the scene, the media outlet reported. The migrants were calling on Thai authorities to have them transported to Malaysia rather than the United States, and demanded permission to bring food into sleeping areas to feed their children at times they choose.

                      Thailand is preparing to send the Rohingya to the United States, according to a Washington-established quota on refugee acceptance. The refugees have been accommodated at a Thai Ministry of Social Development and Human Security facility. The migrants are being fed at a temporary dining room and are not allowed to bring food to the dormitories.

                      The Rohingya ethnic group comprises the largest part of the Muslim population in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Its members have been fleeing the country by sea to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, often at the hands of smugglers, as they face persecution by their government.

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                      • #56
                        Myanmar's Buddhist hardliners, monks protest in Rakhine against Rohingya migrant rescues
                        Jun 14, 2015


                        Buddhist monks shout during a march to denounce foreign criticism of the country's treatment of stateless Rohingya Muslims, in Yangon, Myanmar, on May 27, 2015. About 500 Buddhist hardliners, backed by monks, gathered in Sittwe, in troubled Rakhine state, on Sunday, June 14, to protest against help being offered to desperate migrants found adrift on boats in the Bay of Bengal.
                        PHOTO: REUTERS

                        YANGON (AFP) - Buddhist hardliners backed by monks protested in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state on Sunday against help being offered to desperate migrants found adrift on boats in the Bay of Bengal.

                        The rescues have infuriated Buddhist hardliners who want the Rohingya - one of the world's most persecuted minorities - expelled from Myanmar altogether and say the central government should not help those stranded in the Bay of Bengal.

                        Around 500 people, backed by dozens of monks, gathered under heavy rain on Sunday in the state capital Sittwe chanting slogans, a witness who joined the protest told AFP by phone. The witness' account was confirmed by a protest leader who said simultaneous demonstrations would take place in 10 townships across the state.

                        "We are protesting against Bengalis that were sent to Rakhine State," Mr Aung Htay, a protest leader in Sittwe, told AFP. Most Myanmar nationals, including the government, use the term Bengali to describe the Rohingya, many of whom have lived in the region for generations.

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                        • #57
                          500 march in anti-Rohingya protest
                          15 June 2015


                          Earlier in 2015, more than 100 people took to the streets protesting the international spotlight on the Rohingya boat people.
                          (PHOTO: DVB).

                          Around 500 people, backed by dozens of monks, gathered under heavy rain on Sunday 14 June in the Arakan State capital of Sittwe chanting slogans, a witness who joined the protest told AFPAFPAFP.

                          Anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise across Burma in recent years with radical monks accused of stoking religious tensions with fiery warnings that Buddhism is under threat from Islam.

                          Neither the government nor opposition parties have shown much appetite to confront communal tensions for fear of alienating Buddhist voters ahead of crunch elections slated for later this year.

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                          • #58
                            New 'boat people' crisis feared once rains end by UNHCR
                            Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters
                            29 August 2015


                            Refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh are rescued by Aceh fisherman in Julok, East Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, in this 20 May, 2015, file photo.
                            Photo: EPA/STR

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                            • #59
                              Report: Rohingya smugglers moving routes from Thailand
                              Max Constant
                              11 September 2015



                              'Traffickers likely to try to structure new system using islands off the coast of Myanmar as a base'
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                              • #60
                                President U Thein Sein sued in US over alleged Rohingya abuse
                                Saturday, 3 October 2015


                                Myanmar President U Thein Sein is facing a court case in the US over alleged involvement in abuse of Rohingya Muslims.
                                Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA

                                Muslim rights activists have filed a lawsuit in the United States against President U Thein Sein, accusing him and several ministers of human rights abuses against minority Muslim Rohingya, just a few weeks before an historic general election, reports Reuters on October 2.

                                Reuters reports the complaint was filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, accusing Thein Sein and top officials of planning and instigating "hate crimes and discrimination amounting to genocide."

                                According to the plaintiffs, Muslim Rohingya are "subjected to genocide, torture, arbitrary detention, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" by officials controlled by Thein Sein and his ministers.

                                According to the report, the civil lawsuit was filed by Burma Task Force, a group of 19 Muslim organizations, and the Rohingya man Hitay Lwin Oo.

                                It seeks compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a US law often invoked in lawsuits alleging human rights abuses.

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