Accident victim dies as ‘hospital refuses treatment’
Arakan News Agency A Rohingya Muslim died from injuries sustained from a motorbike accident amidst allegations that Maungdaw hospital authorities have let him die without treatment. Maulavi Ismail s/o Master Md Hossain was returning from Maungdaw to his home in Nolboinna when his bike lost tract on the hilly terrain. He was rushed to the […]
Trafficking crackdown poses new dangers for victims
Arakan News Agency The two boys in the back of the police pickup truck were terrified. Dressed in ragged clothes, they had been caught close to a remote people-smugglers’ camp in in a Songkhla province jungle where authorities found the remains of 26 people in shallow graves last week. “When the police raided the camp […]
Six police officers transferred pending investigation into hidden Rohingya graves.
Arakan News Agency Royal Thai Police Commissioner Somyot Pumpanmuang would reportedly transfer the commander of Satun Provincial Police and five other policemen at Padang Besa sub-district in Sadao district of Songkhla in connection with the discovery of 26 graves of Rohingya migrants. Police General Somyot met with authorities in Songkhla on Monday over the hidden […]
Rohingya woman tells of fleeing trafficking camp
Arakan News Agency Khatun, 25, fled jungle camp in Thailand close to where mass migrant grave of Rohingya, Bangladeshis was discovered. A Muslim Rohingya woman allegedly held captive and tortured in a Thai jungle camp has told local media that the last time she saw her child was when the chance came to escape. “They […]
UNHCR calls for joint response in wake of “Rohingya mass grave” in Thailand
Arakan News Agency BANGKOK, May 6 – The UN refugee agency is deeply concerned at this week’s discovery of dozens of bodies in smugglers’ camps in southern Thailand. The agency calls on countries in the region to strengthen cooperation on counter-smuggling and counter-trafficking measures while ensuring the protection of victims. In recent days Thai authorities […]
Ten-day deadline to find migrant camps
Arakan News Agency PM wants complete scrutiny of all areas; may use article 44 power to tackle trafficking issue PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday gave a 10-day deadline for a complete scrutiny of all areas for possible detention camps and graves related to trafficked migrants. Local authorities would look for existing crimes or related illegal […]
Thai army finds six more bodies in suspected Rohingya trafficking
Arakan News Agency Bodies, buried in shallow graves, found around 4 km from trafficking camp discovered Friday which contained 26 corpses Thailand (Reuters) – Authorities in Thailand have dug up the bodies of six suspected Rohingya migrants from Myanmar at a rubber plantation near a mountain where a mass grave was found at the weekend, […]
Security increased for Rohingya trafficking witnesses
Arakan News Agency Police have increased protection for two Rohingya migrants who felt threatened after becoming key witnesses in a murder case tied to Friday’s discovery of a mass graveyard at a human-trafficker camp in Songkhla. Pol Col Anuchon Chamart, deputy chief of Nakhon Si Thammarat police, ordered the increased security out of fear that […]
Buddhist officer arrested one elder Rohingya in a brutal manner
Arakan News Agency Buddhist officer arrested Rohingya elder in his fifties from inside his house with a very brutal manner in the village south Maungdaw City as a reporter of ANA said, adding that the officer had tortured the man brutally for long hours; His family paid about 300 thousand Kyat Burmese to the officer […]
Kiladong killing: Rohingyas flee as police start crackdown
Arakan News Agency Rohingya Muslim men in Kiladong, Maungdaw South have fled their homes in the aftermath of the murder of a pro government man. Sultan, the Aishwaramu of the area was killed before dawn on Saturday. Following the murder, scores of policemen flooded the area from the early hours. Sultan’s family members including his […]
Thai police arrest Rohingya man suspected of running deadly jungle camp
Arakan News Agency Thai police have arrested a man they believe is the key figure behind a brutal human trafficking network that ran a jungle camp where dozens of bodies have been found. Soe Naing, widely known as Anwar, was detained last Tuesday as authorities closed in on a camp near the Thai-Malaysia border where […]
Discovery of 26 bodies in Thai camp ‘tip of iceberg’
Arakan News Agency Director of NGO focusing on plight of Muslim Rohingya says if Thai police search forest areas along Malaysian border, they would find hundreds of bodies. The director of an NGO focusing on the plight of Muslim Rohingya says the discovery of a labor camp in southern Thailand containing the graves of 26 […]
Bodies from Thai mass grave show no initial signs of violent death: police
Arakan News Agency (Reuters) – Twenty-six bodies exhumed at a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp in southern Thailand do not bear signs of violent death, police said on Sunday, following initial forensic examinations at the site. Dozens of police and rescue volunteers trekked into the mountains on Saturday to a jungle camp […]