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The regional implications of the Burma Army crackdown on suspected Rohingya militants in Arakan State continue to play out.
The crew of the boat were reportedly seen throwing some items overboard into the sea, causing more suspicion.
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Cavusoglu broke the Ramadan fast at sunset with local Muslims at a mosque in Aung Mingalar. Later, he spoke to members of the community.
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Phuketwan editor Alan Morison and his colleague were pronounced ‘not guilty’ of defamation charges in Phuket. DVB speaks exclusively to him about the trial.
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Police uncovered 24 bodies near the Malaysian border with Thailand. They are thought to be Rohingya or Bangladeshi victims of human trafficking.
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The Burmese government has confirmed via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 August the repatriation of 159 verified Bangladesh nationals.
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The 20 were each sentenced to five years in connection with a ship carrying 208 migrants that was intercepted by the Burmese navy last month.
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Regardless of the desperate conditions in the hastily assembled camps, many Rohingya asylum seekers say the Acehnese are receiving them with open arms.
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A boat carrying more than 200 Bangladeshi migrants was intercepted by the Burmese navy off the Arakanese coast.
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At a meeting with a US delegation in Naypyidaw, govt leaders say they will take back Rohingya boat people – but only if they can prove Burmese citizenship.
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More than 30 bodies have been pulled from shallow graves at a human-trafficking camp at the Thai-Malaysian border. Police say 20 more could be found.
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A police compound in southern Thailand will shelter 95 illegal Rohingya migrants after local Muslims refused to allow them to be housed near their communities.
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DVB spoke with Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian of Phuketwan, who are facing the possibility of seven years in prison for quoting a Reuters article about the smuggling of Rohingya Muslims.
Countries in the region need to try harder to find solutions to the problem of Rohingya people who have been forced to leave Burma and ended up victims of human trafficking gangs, a forum was told.
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Two Thailand-based journalists were charged on Thursday with defamation and violation of the Computer Crimes Act for citing a Reuters article that contained allegations against members of the Royal Thai Navy.
Two Reuters reporters were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reports on the trafficking of Rohingya Muslims, days before two Thailand-based journalists will appear in court, where they may face up to seven years in jail for republishing one paragraph of the award-winning work.
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The arraignment of two journalists based in southern Thailand has been postponed following pleas from rights advocates that charges be dropped.
Thai immigration commissioner says all the Rohingya migrants who were detained in Thailand were sent back to Burma three months ago.
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US and EU call on Burma to allow immediate humanitarian access to an impoverished Rohingya refugee camp in Arakan state, while Human Rights Watch criticises Thai immigration authorities for alleged complicity in a Rohingya smuggling operation.
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Burmese asylum-seekers living in Indonesia say they will continue to risk their lives and travel by boat to Australia, despite the very high chance they will never get there.
Thailand’s navy has filed criminal defamation charges against a news website that published stories alleging Thai military involvement in the trafficking of Burma’s ethnic Rohingya boatpeople.
News agencies have reported that around 50 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma are feared drowned after trying to flee Arakan state in a boat that sank in the early hours of Sunday,
Thai marine police recover the bodies of 13 Burmese migrant boatpeople whose boat sunk in a storm in the Andaman Sea.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has sought to downplay Indonesian concerns about his controversial new asylum policy during a diplomatic visit to Jakarta this week.
Rohingya detainees in the Indian Andaman Islands allege that they were tortured and pushed out to sea in a vessel with no engine and limited supplies
UN human rights chief says the proposed plan to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia could violate international refugee laws
Deal will see Australia send 800 ‘boatpeople’ to Malaysia in return for 4,000 migrants, but activists warn of Australian anti-immigration ruse
