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After Husaina’s 20-year-old son fled poverty and discrimination in Burma’s Arakan State by boat, she heard nothing from him for seven months.
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The number of migrants leaving Burma by boat in the past four months has plummeted because of Thai and Bangladeshi crackdowns on trafficking, the UN said.
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Burma does not consider the Rohingya citizens, rendering them effectively stateless, while denying it discriminates against them or that they are fleeing persecution.
Burmese authorities repatriated 48 Bangladeshi victims of human trafficking on 2 December, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The group had been held in immigration detention for several months.
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U.S. lawmakers and rights groups allege that the Obama Administration ignored Malaysia’s abuse of trafficking victims to secure a trade deal.
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People smugglers are exploring new routes to Malaysia after a Thai crackdown on trafficking, with few migrant boat departures from Burma in some six months.
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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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Burma sent 155 migrants back to Bangladesh on Wednesday, more than a month after rescuing them from a boat stranded at sea.
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Six smugglers at the centre of a “pay and turn back” row between Indonesia and Australia were being questioned by Indonesian police on Tuesday.
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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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Malaysian authorities on Monday held a sombre mass funeral for 21 suspected ethnic Rohingya found in human-trafficking graves last month.
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Even if Thailand’s lowly status remains unchanged in the upcoming US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, authorities have made headway, says Thai official.
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday Australia would stop traffickers’ trade “by hook or by crook” amid allegations of paying for boats to turn back.
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The Thai national was arrested in Laydauntkan Ward, Mingaladon Township on 29 May.
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The United States said on Friday that thousands of migrants adrift in Southeast Asian seas needed urgent rescue, as countries gathered in Bangkok to discuss the regional crisis.
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The discovery of the bodies of more than 100 suspected migrants should force both countries to crack down on official compliance in trafficking.
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An eight-month-old Burmese girl, abducted in broad daylight, has been returned to her mother after CCTV footage of the kidnapping went viral.
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Thai crackdown on those involved in trafficking and killing migrant Rohingyas continues. Forty-three now arrested; 34 suspects still on the run.
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Malaysian deputy home minister slams Burma’s treatment of the Muslim minority. Meanwhile, Thailand announces it will prosecute illegal Rohingya migrants.
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Official settlements should be created, says Pol-Gen Somyot, while policy chief says issue is “international responsibility”.
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“The crackdown has yet to uproot all trafficking networks,” said human rights lawyer Surapong Kongchantuk from the Lawyers Council of Thailand.
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More than 500 migrants, thought to be Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis, were rescued from boats off the coast of Indonesia’s northern Aceh province on Sunday, 10 May and given temporary shelter at a mosque in the town of Seunuddon.
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The day after 600 migrants landed in Indonesia’s Aceh after being abandoned at sea, a further 1,400 are rescued on Monday.
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Thailand’s prime minister has a responsibility to clean up Thai labour laws, and press for a solution to the Rohingya crisis on Burmese soil.
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Authorities have launched an investigation into the 50 police officers transferred following the discovery of Rohingya detention camps and graves.
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Eighteen arrest warrants issued for suspects involved in the camps of smuggled migrants in Thailand’s south as more grim discoveries are made.
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Investigators in southern Thailand have discovered five graves at a second remote jungle camp believed to contain the remains of Rohingya migrants.
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Three Thai officials and a Burmese man are arrested on suspicion of human trafficking after the remains of 26 migrants were found in a mass grave.
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A group of locals in Thailand’s Phang Nga province have armed themselves, to track down traffickers and free their human cargo.
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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.
