Chittagong, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) arrested 12 Arakanese Rohingyas on March 14 night, including women, and children when they were going to India through the Laxmidari border, said a BDR official.
The traffickers who took them from Chittagong to the Indo-Bangladesh border managed to escape.
The arrested Rohingyas entered Bangladesh after crossing the Burma-Bangladesh border about eight days ago, according to police and BDR.
Later, they went to Dhaka by train from Chittagong and reached Satkhira by bus on March 14. However, BDR personnel arrested them while they were trying to cross the Laxmidari border, at around 8 pm.
Soon after, the BDR handed them over to Sadar police station and a case was filed against them.
Arakanese Rohingy people flee to neighboring countries such as Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia because of political persecution by the military junta. The persecution in north Arakan against the Arakanese Rohingya people by the regime is intolerable. They have no other alternative, so they flee to neighboring countries from their own motherland to avoid persecution, said a local leader from Buthidaung town, who preferred not to be named.
The arrested were identified as Yakub Ali (60), Lebas Khatun (50), and wife of Yakub Ali, Monowara Khatun (21), Zohra Khtun (19) and Tahera Begum (17), daughters of Yakub Ali, and Shoel (12), son of Yakub Ali, they belong to Reajuddin Para and Nur Jahan (23), wife of Amir Hussain, Yasmin (12), and Asmita (4), daughters of Amir Hussain and son Rejwan Hussain(17), and Faruk Meah (25) and Humaira (18), wife of Faruk Meah, from Kaowa Chaung of Buthidaung township of Burma.
Source :http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2487%3Atwelve-arakanese-rohingyas-arrested-on-indo-bangla-border&catid=118%3Amarch-2010&Itemid=2
The traffickers who took them from Chittagong to the Indo-Bangladesh border managed to escape.
The arrested Rohingyas entered Bangladesh after crossing the Burma-Bangladesh border about eight days ago, according to police and BDR.
Later, they went to Dhaka by train from Chittagong and reached Satkhira by bus on March 14. However, BDR personnel arrested them while they were trying to cross the Laxmidari border, at around 8 pm.
Soon after, the BDR handed them over to Sadar police station and a case was filed against them.
Arakanese Rohingy people flee to neighboring countries such as Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia because of political persecution by the military junta. The persecution in north Arakan against the Arakanese Rohingya people by the regime is intolerable. They have no other alternative, so they flee to neighboring countries from their own motherland to avoid persecution, said a local leader from Buthidaung town, who preferred not to be named.
The arrested were identified as Yakub Ali (60), Lebas Khatun (50), and wife of Yakub Ali, Monowara Khatun (21), Zohra Khtun (19) and Tahera Begum (17), daughters of Yakub Ali, and Shoel (12), son of Yakub Ali, they belong to Reajuddin Para and Nur Jahan (23), wife of Amir Hussain, Yasmin (12), and Asmita (4), daughters of Amir Hussain and son Rejwan Hussain(17), and Faruk Meah (25) and Humaira (18), wife of Faruk Meah, from Kaowa Chaung of Buthidaung township of Burma.
Source :http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2487%3Atwelve-arakanese-rohingyas-arrested-on-indo-bangla-border&catid=118%3Amarch-2010&Itemid=2
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