Two Registered Refugees sent to Myanmar by the BGB
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| (Photo: Matias) |
Andrew Day
RB News
August 12, 2013
Two Rohingya women, a mother and daughter who are Refugees registered through the UNHCR and the Government of Bangladesh, were sent from Bangladesh to Myanmar yesterday by the BGB.
41 year old Gul Bahar and her 25 year old daughter, Dhalu were detained by the BGB (Border Gaurd Bangladesh) at the Whykaung check post. The border guards were suspicious of the women as they could not speak Bengali. They only speak Rohingya. The guards did not give the women opportunity to present their refugee identification. In the presence of the BDR from the border of bangladesh, the women were handed over to a boat man with orders to take them to Myanmar.
The woman have arrived in Myanmar and they are still in a house of the boat man. There are reports that the man offered to secretly take them back to Bangladesh if they each pay him 10000 Taka.
The women's UNCHR identification numbers are 742-00018968 and 287-00008784.
The women were detained while travelling to Cox's Bazaar Prison to see Dhalu's father on Eid day. He has been in jail for 2 years now. He was taken by the Coast Guard near the boarder of Saint Martin, while attempting to get to Malaysia.
