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...
Members of the ethnic minority arriving from Myanmar and Bangladesh in hope of better lives enter a tangled human trafficking web in Thailand, where local officials, complicitous members of their own group and fixers make them pay dearly for their dreams For desperate...
An immigrant from Myanmar smuggled in by sea tells of his journey, and why he had to flee his tumultuous homeland Two months ago, Yub, a 28-year-old Rohingya man, slipped quietly into Thailand after he paid 400,000 kyat (142,000 baht) to a human trafficker to take him...
Kuala Lumpur _ Malaysia’s maritime agency on Tuesday said it “rescued” 40 Myanmar shipwreck survivors, who are thought to be Muslim Rohingya fleeing ethnic violence who had been denied entry to Singapore. The agency told AFP the survivors of a wreck...
PRESS RELEASE It is tragedy that the Government has turned away 40 people who were picked up by a ship off the coast of Myanmar who, from media reports, are Muslim Rohingya. They were seeking refuge in Singapore. These persons, many of them women and children, are...
COX’S BAZAR, 17 December 2012 (IRIN) – Some 40,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees are being adversely affected by a government ban four months ago on NGOs working at two makeshift sites in southeastern Bangladesh. “If we get some rice, we eat. Otherwise, we...
