Kolkata: India’s coast guard personnel have rescued 81 Rohingya refugees from a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea. “The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting,” Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said in a press briefing on FebruaryContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Dhaka, August 2, 2019: Two cardinals from Myanmar and the Philippines met refugee families, relief agency personnel and government officials of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh during their weeklong visit to Bangladesh. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila, and Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishopContinue Reading
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More than 60 Rohingya refugees are feared dead after a boat carrying them from Myanmar capsized, leaving distraught relatives to hold burials on Friday in Bangladesh camps that the Red Cross says are tipping into a health crisis. Half a million Rohingya have crushed into camps in Bangladesh in justContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai- Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution in Myanmar for generations, and Bangladesh is where they have usually fled during the waves of violence visited upon the community since they were declared non-citizens in 1982. But never before have so many arrived so quickly – nearly 450,000 Rohingya haveContinue Reading
Malaysia detained more than 1,000 migrantsContinue Reading