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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Burma

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32686328

 

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Thousands of refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are stranded at sea close to Thailand, according to an international migration agency.
 
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) told the BBC a Thai crackdown on recent arrivals meant many smugglers were now reluctant to land.
 
As many as 8,000 people are believed to be stuck on boats, the IOM said.
 
In the past two days more than 2,000 have arrived in Malaysia or Indonesia after being rescued or swimming ashore.
 
Jeff Labovitz, head of mission for IOM Asia Pacific, told the BBC that the discovery last week of dozens of human remains in abandoned camps in the south of Thailand had prompted a police crackdown and therefore people smugglers were holding their boats at sea.
 
Bangladeshi migrants, and ethnic Rohingyas who face persecution in Myanmar, are normally brought by people smugglers to Thailand where they are effectively held ransom until they can raise money for their onward journey to Malaysia and beyond.
 
Analysis: Jonathan Head, South East Asia correspondent
 
Specialists in trafficking inside the DSI - Thailand's equivalent of the American FBI - and the military's ISOC national security units, have been telling me for months that they were building up cases against known agents in the human trade. They just could not be sure they would get backing from the top levels of the military government. Some local officials, horrified by the abuses in their districts, took it on themselves to run roadblocks, or hunt down trafficking camps.
 
But it was the discovery of mass graves last week that spurred the government into concerted action, with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha issuing a 10-day deadline to expose the camps that have been hidden for years in the rubber plantations covering much of Thailand's south.
 
Today I watched men from communities that are known to have profited from trafficking by hosting camps in their plantations, being forced to go out and 'discover' those camps. The brokers have mostly fled, leaving hundreds of half-starved migrants wandering about in the jungle.
 
"Boats seem to have stopped coming - but some are en route and some are waiting to off-load. Where they used to process people on land, for final payments, they are now doing this off-shore - so more people are being held off-shore. Now things have become so hot, there's nowhere for them to go," Mr Labovitz said.
BBC
 
He said that an estimate by the Arakan Project - which monitors the movements of Rohingyas - that 8,000 people are stranded at sea could not be verified, but seemed credible.
 
Malaysian officials said on Monday that 1,018 Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees had landed illegally on Langkawi island, apparently abandoned by people smugglers who were transporting them to Thailand.
Indonesian authorities rescued nearly 600 migrants stranded off the coast of Aceh on Sunday and more than 400 others early on Monday.
 
Who are the Rohingyas?
  • Rohingyas are a distinct, Muslim ethnic group mainly living in Myanmar, which is also known as Burma
  • Thought to be descended from Muslim traders who settled there more than 1,000 years ago
  • Also live in Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
  • In Myanmar, they are regularly persecuted - subjected to forced labour, have no land rights, and are heavily restricted
  • In Bangladesh many are also desperately poor, with no documents or job prospects
Myanmar's unwanted people
 
A report by the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday that 25,000 migrants boarded people smugglers' boats from Myanmar and Bangladesh in 2015's first quarter - about double the number who left over the same period in 2014. It said about 300 people died at sea from January to March this year.
 
It added that the increase in migration from the area has been attributed to a variety of factors, including political developments in Myanmar, and wives and children wishing to join the men who have already migrated.
 
Three Thais and a Burmese national have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking after last week's discovery of shallow graves in abandoned camps in southern Thailand.
 
Slideshow on NYTimes
 
 
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Why isn't there heavy international criticisms on the Myanmar government? You have them denying what the UN claims [HERE]but it's becoming quite obvious when the Rohingya migrate out of Myanmar and into other countries illegally. These countries are going to need answers as to why these people are fleeing and the Myanmar government can't keep "denying" what's happening there. 


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Why isn't there heavy international criticisms on the Myanmar government? You have them denying what the UN claims [HERE]but it's becoming quite obvious when the Rohingya migrate out of Myanmar and into other countries illegally. These countries are going to need answers as to why these people are fleeing and the Myanmar government can't keep "denying" what's happening there. 

 

because the government of myanmar clearly express that it won't acknowledge these peoples as its citizens. it hinted that it supported the eradication of rohingya from myanmar. the rohingya has no citizenship they belong to nowhere.

 

it's reported that indonesia did not let ships of rohingya landed on its shore excusing these peoples wanted to land on malaysia so, the officer would just give them water and food and let them go, malaysia did the same excusing these peoples wanted to land on indonesia.

 

the thai pm toughen the law enforcement to stop rohingya trafficking saying that would help them. but i believe the real help is to let them freely enter thai territory.

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Hidden by lawlaw, May 14, 2015 - No reason given

Because white people are responsable for slavery, genocide, (even if most european has nothing to do in that nor their ancestors but still) They have to take care of them. if they don't, they are racists.  :imstupid:

i hope france takes ALLLLLLLL of them in, and become the majority and kill off the natives :ahmagah: :hurr: :har:

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Why isn't there heavy international criticisms on the Myanmar government? You have them denying what the UN claims [HERE]but it's becoming quite obvious when the Rohingya migrate out of Myanmar and into other countries illegally. These countries are going to need answers as to why these people are fleeing and the Myanmar government can't keep "denying" what's happening there. 

 

 

I'm pretty sure no one cares, we're just happy they aren't heading our direction.

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Why isn't there heavy international criticisms on the Myanmar government? You have them denying what the UN claims [HERE]but it's becoming quite obvious when the Rohingya migrate out of Myanmar and into other countries illegally. These countries are going to need answers as to why these people are fleeing and the Myanmar government can't keep "denying" what's happening there. 

 

 

I'm pretty sure no one cares, we're just happy they aren't heading our direction.

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