Showing posts with label Rohingya Genocide. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

UN: 26 Rohingya refugees died at sea making perilous journey

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 At least 26 Rohingya Muslims had died in dire conditions during a month at open sea while making a dangerous voyage that brought scores of others to safety in Indonesia, a U.N. agency said Tuesday, adding there will likely be more.

Exhausted women and children were among 185 people who disembarked from a rickety wooden boat on Monday in a coastal village in Aceh’s Pidie district, authorities said. A distressing video circulated widely on social media showed the Rohingya worn out and emaciated, with many crying for help.

“They are very weak because of dehydration and exhaustion after weeks at sea,” said local police chief Fauzi, who goes by a single name.


The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said that survivors told the agency that 26 people died during the long journey.


One of the refugees, who identified himself as Rosyid, told The Associated Press that they left the refugee camp in Bangladesh at the end of November and drifted on the open sea. He said at least “20 of us died aboard due to high waves and sick, and their bodies were thrown into the sea.”


According to UNHR, more than 2,000 people are reported to have taken risky sea journeys in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal this year, and nearly 200 have reportedly died.


UNHCR has also received unconfirmed reports of one additional boat with some 180 people still missing, with all passengers presumed dead.


Chris Lewa, the director of the Arakan Project, which works in support of Myanmar’s Rohingya, said the latest arrivals were among five groups of Rohingya who had left refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh by smaller boats to avoid detection by local coast guards before they were transferred onto five larger boats for their respective journeys.


Myanmar security forces have been accused of mass rapes, killings and burning of thousands of homes belonging to minority Rohingya Muslims, sending them fleeing to Bangladesh and onward.


Malaysia has been a common destination for many of the refugees arriving by boat, but they also have been detained in the country. Engine troubles make others seek safety in Aceh province in Indonesia, on the way to Malaysia.


UNHCR praised authorities and Indonesia’s local community who brought ashore more than 200 desperate Rohingya, many of whom were in need of urgent medical attention.


Indonesian fishermen and local authorities rescued and disembarked two groups, 58 on Sunday and 174 on Monday, said Ann Maymann, the UNHCR representative in Indonesia, “We welcome this act of humanity by local communities and authorities in Indonesia.”

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Poor Generosity: The poorest Muslim country, Bangladesh, is doing more for refugees than all rich Arab Countries

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Editors' Comment: Saudi Arabians rulers just spent nearly $500 trillions on weapons. When the Saudi rulers go on vacation, they take an entourage of 5000 people and spend 100's of millions of dollars on fancy hotels, luxurious cars, and security protection. But these rulers, whose wealth is derived from natural resources like oil and gas, contribute nothing when it comes to helping the poor and mitigating natural disasters. Poor countries, like Bangladesh, on the other hand, share whatever little they have with the needy. They remain the most generous people on the face of the earth despite the hardships they have endured from generations. The Bangladeshi people are now offering a helping hand to the Rohingya people who are escaping certain death in Myanmar.

Friday, September 8, 2017

Nobel Prize Winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, presiding over the Rohingya Genocide

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Desmond Tutu condemns Aung San Suu Kyi: 'Silence is too high a price'
Nobel laureate issues heartfelt letter to fellow peace prize winner calling for her to speak up for Rohingya in Myanmar

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