The worldwide refugee crisis is becoming increasingly alarming, with nearly 60 million refugees and displaced people globally, the largest number since [.]
Nearly 100 Rohingya smuggled from Myanmar's conflict-scarred Rakhine state were arrested in a raid in Yangon, police announced Thursday, with authorities saying they had been headed to Malaysia as part of a trafficking network.
WORLD / ASIA-PACIFIC
Myanmar police arrest nearly 100 trafficked Rohingya in raid By AFP Published: Jan 07, 2021 06:33 PM Nearly 100 Rohingya smuggled from Myanmar s conflict-scarred Rakhine state were arrested in a raid in Yangon, police announced on Thursday, with authorities saying they had been headed to Malaysia as part of a trafficking network.
The plight of the Rohingya captured international headlines in 2017 after a military crackdown in western Rakhine state sent almost 750,000 fleeing across the border to Bangladesh.
Indonesian policemen are deployed outside the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on September 4, 2017, after a petrol bomb was thrown into the embassy compounds. Photo: VCGMembers of the stateless minority group have long faced discrimination in Myanmar, where they are denied freedom of movement and citizenship, and lack access to work, healthcare and schools. With the remaining languishing in camps that rights groups have described as apartheid-like, man
Trafficked Rohingyas: Myanmar police arrest nearly 100 in raid Afp, Yangon Afp, Yangon
Nearly 100 Rohingyas smuggled from Myanmar s conflict-scarred Rakhine state were arrested in a raid in Yangon, police announced yesterday, with authorities saying they had been headed to Malaysia as part of a trafficking network.
The plight of the Rohingyas captured international headlines in 2017 after a military crackdown in western Rakhine state sent almost 750,000 fleeing across the border to Bangladesh.
Members of the stateless minority group have long faced discrimination in Myanmar, where they are denied freedom of movement and citizenship, and lack access to work, healthcare and schools.
With the remaining languishing in camps that rights groups have described as apartheid-like , many choose to embark on treacherous routes with human smugglers to reach Malaysia and Indonesia.