Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims seeking asylum have been stranded in Sanmadar for nearly two months, mostly involving women and children, after failing to reach Malaysia.
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| SOURCE: DW |
All these Rohingya refugees wanted to reach Malaysia, but because of the Coronavirus outbreak, Malaysia had increased patrols in the coastal areas, so they could not reach their destination and had been wandering in the sea for several days.
Most women and children were aboard the boat filled with refugees. Authorities arrested all the boatmen as they arrived at the Bihar Chhara Ghat in Cox's Bazar, a coastal district of Bangladesh. "We have rescued at least 382 Rohingyas from a large fishing trawler and were transported to the Teknaf coast," said Lt. Gen. Shah Zia Rehman, a Coast Guard spokesman in Bangladesh. Is. They were all starving. They have been swimming at sea level for the last 58 days and for the past one week they have been moving in the waters of our area. "
Seeking asylum for the Rohingya Muslims, asylum seekers, Shah Zia Rehman said, according to those who have been rescued, “32 Rohingya riders boarded the boat, whose bodies were thrown into the sea during the journey. Had to give Some have reported 28 deaths in the boat while traveling.
In one of his tweets, he wrote, "There is chaos in the Rohingyas' boat arriving in Bangladesh today. Malaysia banned the boat from entering its territory and after this happened three times, it returned. I. Many have already died and some have died in the boat. Many Bangladeshis are also afraid to help them in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. "
About one million Rohingya refugees have now taken refuge in Bangladesh who have arrived there to escape the atrocities in neighboring Myanmar.
It is to be remembered that after the military crackdown against Rohingya in Myanmar province, Rohingya, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims
Escape to Myanmar and live in camps on the Bangladesh border. Most of them are forced to stay in the camps at Cox's Bazaar in a state of uncertainty.
Military action in Myanmar's rocky state began in 2017, which the UN interprets as ethnic cleansing. So far, about a million Rohingya have left their homes and traveled to neighboring Bangladesh by foot and by boat. According to the Myanmar government, military action was initiated against the Rohingya extremists, but the army was also accused of torture, sexual abuse, and murder. But the Myanmar Rohingyas have denied all allegations of minority rape and killings.
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