Thai Officers Investigated in Rohingya Trafficking

Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized

By THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press A colonel and another high-ranking Thai army officer have been temporarily removed from their posts while they are investigated for suspected involvement in trafficking refugees from Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority to a...

Desperation drives more Rohingya onto smugglers’ boats

Jan 29, 2013 | Report

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, January 22 (UNHCR) – They sail in search of safety, education, a better life, a future. But many die along the way. Those who survive face the prospect of detention, bonded labour or furtive lives as undocumented workers in an alien...

KSA gives $ 1.88 m for Rohingya resettlement

Jan 21, 2013 | Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia yesterday announced a contribution of $ 1.88 million toward UNHCR’s humanitarian program in Myanmar providing shelter to Rohingyas in Rakhine state. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed by Yousef Al-Bassam of the Saudi Fund for...

End hypocrisy over Rohingya

Jan 20, 2013 | Politics & Strategy

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....

Bangladeshi border guards conduct raids on illegal Rohingya

Jan 20, 2013 | Bangladesh

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have arrested more than 85 Rohingya and deported them to Burma after conducting raids from Jan.15-16, according to one local who didn’t want their name used. Since the sectarian violence in Arakan state broke out in June and October,...