THAILAND: Hundreds of Rohingya migrants discovered in south

Record ID: 862990

  • Title: THAILAND: Hundreds of Rohingya migrants discovered in south
  • Date: 11th January 2013
  • Summary: SONGKLA, THAILAND (JANUARY 10, 2013) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS ROHINGYAS SITTING INSIDE A HUT VARIOUS ROHINGYAS EATING FOOD
  • Embargoed: 26th January 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Thailand
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  • Country: Thailand
  • Topics: People,Social Services / Welfare
  • Reuters ID: LVABKMGXR18ICC02T9ASOELIEBFK
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  • Story Text: Thai officials found around 400 Rohingya Muslims living in makeshift tents near the Malaysian border in Songkla, Thailand on Thursday (January 10) .
    Police conducted two raids at a warehouse and a rubber plantation in the southern province.
    They say the Rohingyas were illegal workers living there for several months waiting to be trafficked across the border to Malaysia.
    Thai immigration officials are preparing to deport the group, which included women and children, back to Myanmar.
    Rohingyas are officially stateless in the predominantly Buddhist country.
    The Myanmar government regards the estimated 800,000 Rohingyas as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and not as one of the country's 135 official ethnic groups, and denies them citizenship.
    More than 100,000 Rohingyas have been displaced in violence between the Rohingyas and Rakhine Buddhists last June and October.
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