Myanmar Detains 106 Rohingya Muslims
Myanmar Immigration Authorities have detained 106 Rohingya Muslims aboard a boat off Yangon on Friday, raising fears of a fresh wave of dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers.
Myanmar Detains 106 Rohingya Muslims
The boat was bound for Malaysia when authorities stopped it in the early morning about 30 kilometres south of Myanmar’s largest city.
The group boarded the vessel from internal displacement camps outside Sittwe, the capital of Western Rakhine State.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya have been confined to sprawling camps outside Sittwe since violence swept Rakhine in 2012.
More than 700,000 Rohingya fled a brutal army crackdown in the northern part of the state last year, according to U.N. agencies.
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