US EditionTwo boats with more than 260 Rohingya refugees arrives in Indonesia’s coast
- More than 260 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have landed in Indonesia in two boats, officials said Monday.
- Police and military officers are working with the U.N. Refugee agency and the local government in East Aceh to gather more information about the refugees, East Aceh police chief Nova Suryandaru said.
- More than 300 Rohingya refugees have landed in East Aceh since last February, including about 740,000 who fled a brutal clearance campaign in 2017 by Myanmar's security forces.
- Indonesia has appealed for help from the international community following a sharp rise in the number of Rohingya leaving the overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh since last year.
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More than 260 Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia
BANDA ACEH: More than 260 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, arrived in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh after floating at sea for days, an official said Monday. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
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Two boats with more than 260 Rohingya refugees arrives in Indonesia's coast
More than 260 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have landed in Indonesia in two boats. Police say they and the military are working with the U.N. refugee agency and the local government in East Aceh to…
Rohingya crisis: More than 200 arrive in Indonesia amid growing exodus
The mainly Muslim Rohingya, who are originally from Myanmar and constitute the world's largest stateless population, often escape poor conditions in refugee camps on rickety boats to Thailand or Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia between October and April, when the seas are calmer
Over 200 Rohingya landed in Aceh province, Indonesia, over the weekend, officials said on Monday (6). The record comes amid increasing numbers of arrivals by sea by stateless people to the Southeast Asian country. The Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim people with origins in Myanmar, are the largest stateless people in the world, and often flee the precarious conditions of the refugee camps on fragile boats to Thailand or to Muslim-majority countr…
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