Last Updated: December 27, 2022, 23:23 IST
Children from the Rohingya neighborhood play exterior their shacks in a camp in New Delhi. (File picture/Reuters)
Rights teams have recorded a serious rise within the variety of Rohingya leaving the camps in Bangladesh from about 500 in 2021 to some 2,400 this 12 months
About 180 Rohingya Muslims fleeing determined circumstances in Bangladesh camps are presumed to have drowned at sea in current weeks, probably after their rickety boat broke aside, in what might make 2022 among the many deadliest years for the neighborhood.
Rights teams have recorded a serious rise within the variety of Rohingya leaving the camps in Bangladesh from about 500 in 2021 to some 2,400 this 12 months. Nearly 1 million Rohingya from Myanmar stay in crowded services in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
At least 5 boats carrying Rohingya have sailed from Bangladesh since across the finish of November, in line with Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, an NGO that gives assist to the Rohingya neighborhood. Following are particulars of the boats:
• At least 154 Rohingya had been rescued by a Vietnamese oil ship from a sinking boat off the Myanmar coast on Dec. 7 and handed over to Myanmar’s navy. The Rohingya are a minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and seen by Myanmar authorities as unlawful immigrants from South Asia.
• The Sri Lankan navy on Dec. 18 rescued greater than 100 Rohingya adrift off the Indian Ocean island’s northern coast.
• A ship carrying 180 Rohingya sank throughout the first week of December, in line with Lewa, who cited the captain of the boat rescued in Sri Lanka on Dec. 18, as the 2 boats had been crusing close to one another. All individuals on this boat are presumed to have drowned.
• At least 57 Rohingya had been rescued in Aceh province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 25 after being adrift for practically a month.
• A ship carrying 185 Rohingya, adrift at sea since Dec. 1, washed ashore in Aceh on Monday, in line with Lewa. Local catastrophe company officers stated the vessel landed with 174 Rohingya aboard, with some survivors saying greater than 20 had died on the best way.
• Two boats carrying a complete of 230 Rohingya, together with girls and kids, reached the coast of Aceh final month.
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