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Seven Rohingya Die In Detention Due To “Lack Of Food, Water”: Report

Rohingya people make the months-long boat journey to other parts of Asia. (Representational)Yangon: Seven Rohingya people from a group of 65 seized by Myanmar authorities from a boat off the southern coast died of hunger, thirst and exposure, state media said today.On Monday, authorities detained a vessel near Pyapon township, around 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of commercial hub Yangon, said the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper."Four traffickers and 65 smuggled Bengalis were temporarily detained," it said, using the term by which Rohingya are pejoratively referred to by many in Myanmar.Three men and four women later "died due to the bad weather and lack of food and water", it said.Six others were still receiving medical treatment, while five men from the group "were detained so...
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Rohingya Refugees Mark 5th ‘Genocide Remembrance Day’ In Bangladesh Camps

"All we want is a safe and dignified return to our homeland," said leader Sayed Ullah.Kutupalong, Bangladesh: Thousands of Rohingya refugees held "Genocide Remembrance Day" rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since fleeing a military offensive in Myanmar.In August 2017 around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed over the border with mainly Buddhist Myanmar to escape the onslaught, which is now the subject of a landmark genocide case at the UN's top court.Today there are nearly a million Rohingya, half of them under 18, in rickety huts in camps where the mud lanes regularly become rivers of sewage during monsoon rains.On Thursday thousands staged rallies in many of the camps, holding banners, shouting slogans and demanding a safe...