Rohingya muslims in myanmar

Forty-one Rohingya were found in northern Malaysia Monday, police said, the second group of the Muslim minority to arrive in the country within weeks, while about 200 more are feared trapped at sea. In this undated handout photo released Monday, dozens of people believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar who were dropped off from a boat are pictured on a truck before being taken to a police station near Sungai Belati, Perlis, Malaysia. Malaysian police say a group of 41 Muslim Rohingya men have been detained in the northernmost state of Perlis, the second batch to have landed in the country in just over a month. | MALAYSIA ROYAL POLICE / VIA AP Many Rohingya have been seeking in recent weeks to leave by sea from Bangladesh -- where they live in squalid refugee camps after fleeing their mostly Buddhist homeland Myanmar -- before the monsoon season starts in earnest. Security forces have prevented hundreds from departing for Malaysia with people smugglers on fishing boats. … [Read more...] about Rohingya arrive in Malaysia, more believed at sea

Rohingya Muslims were fleeing Bangladeshi refugee camps to avoid being repatriated to Myanmar later this week, community leaders said Monday. Authorities plan to begin returning Rohingya refugees, who have fled what the UN has called ethnic cleansing, to the Buddhist majority country from Thursday. But the prospect has created panic in the camps, prompting some families who were due to be among the first to be repatriated to flee, according to community leaders. "The authorities repeatedly tried to motivate the ones on the returning refugee list to go back. But instead, they were intimidated and fled to other camps," said Nur Islam, from Jamtoli refugee camp. More than 720,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar's western Rakhine state in a military crackdown from August last year, bringing with them stories of murders, rapes and torture. Some 2,260 Rohingya Muslims had been scheduled to leave the Bangladesh border post in the southeastern Cox's Bazar district in the first … [Read more...] about Rohingya flee camps fearing forcible return to Myanmar

A plan to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar is premature and the refugees are "terrified" about leaving Bangladesh where they sought refuge, dozens of aid agencies working in the region said Friday. Rohingya men fill bags with bricks at the Kutupalong camp near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh on July 18, 2018.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG More than 720,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar's northern Rakhine state to Bangladesh after a heavyhanded army crackdown in August that survivors say involved mass rape and extrajudicial killings. UN investigators say that the country's military leaders should be investigated for genocide but Myanmar has rebuffed the calls, arguing it was only defending itself against Rohingya militants who attacked police posts. Both Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a repatriation agreement to allow Rohingya to return but many fear going back without guarantees of citizenship, freedom of movement and safety. However the governments said in recent … [Read more...] about Aid groups say Rohingya ‘terrified’ about Myanmar repatriation