10 Rohingya Boat People Feared Dead
RB News
April 19, 2018
Banda Aceh/ Sittwe-- 10 Rohingya
people are feared dead as they have been missing since they jumped off the boat, near the coast of southern Myanmar, which later reached to Aceh province of Indonesia on April 6.
A small boat with
15 people on board left from 'Ohn Taw Gyi (Barizaa Fara) in Sittwe (Akyab)
beach between 26th and 27th March. After travelling for 3
days, they got near the coast of ‘Kau Thaung’ Township in Southern Myanmar,
where they were stopped and detained by the Myanmar navy.
As the Myanmar
navy began to torture them, 10 people jumped off the boat and have been missing
since then.
"We were
total 15 people on the boat. Since Myanmar navy began torturing us, 10 people
couldn't suffer anymore and jumped off the boat. Since then, we have no information
about their whereabouts," said a Rohingya boat man survived after rescued
by Indonesian fishermen off the coast of Aceh.
“After torturing us
for a few days, the Myanmar navy set us adrift to the sea from where we arrived
here,” the man added.
When contacted,
the relatives of the missing people said that they didn't information about
their whereabouts either.
Another boat that
left from Akyab (Sittwe) between 11th and 12th April
should get to Malaysia anytime soon.
#Rohingya Boat Update: The boat with 76 ppl aboard that left on #Sittwe on 11-12 Apr night has arrived at Thai water. #Thai navy is monitoring it to ensure it doesnt meet accident in high-tides.— M.S. Anwar (@YoursRohingya) April 18, 2018
The boat is on the way to #Malaysia now & should arrive here anytime soon.@nslwin https://t.co/9ODcZkDEwH
Please also read: Two Rohingya Boats Gone Missing
The Rohingya
people have been fleeing from Myanmar to escape from Genocidal violence -- that
have been carried out by the country’s military and security forces for decades
and reached to their peaks in years of 2012, 2016 and 2017 -- to Bangladesh,
Malaysia and India among others.
[Reported by Myo
Naing and Saeed Arakani; Edited by M.S. Anwar]
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