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Refugees reject claim that some Rohingya safe

The Rohingya refugees began fleeing Myanmar from August 25 when Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) rebels attacked police checkposts and killed 12 security personnel, triggering a military crackdown.

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“Since the refugees have no home to return to right now, New Delhi must show some magnanimity”, said an opinion piece in The Hindu newspaper entitled “Can India ignore the Rohingya crisis?”.

“Accordingly, we are concerned by reports that the numbers of Muslims crossing into Bangladesh remain unabated”.

Dhaka – Bangladesh has allocated 500 tons of rice as it received only 270 tons of food aid from donors to feed the Rohingya Muslims crossed into Bangladesh facing sectarian violence in neighbouring Myanmar. Countries across the region fear they will feel the fallout from the crisis.

“We were told to hand over our demands to a peon, which we did not do”, Haque said. They started burning houses. “We – the humanitarian agencies on the ground – are now a long way from being able to provide this, given the numbers and the speed at which people have arrived and continue to arrive”.

She has not seen her husband since fleeing Myanmar and is not sure whether he is dead or alive.

# The Centre has also said that if they allowed the Rohingyas to stay, Indians would become hostile to them in the long term, seeing them as outsiders taking away their resources and jobs, and that could lead to social tension as well as law and order problems.

Most of the boy’s family members survived and escaped to Bangladesh, but his brother-in-law was shot dead.

As citizen of this world, I and many others around the world request the Noble Committee to revoke her Noble title as she has undone and withdrawn from her cause she was given the Prize for. Two other men carried their 90-year-old grandfather across. The military burned down his house, he said.

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It is reasonable that Foreign Minister Taro Kono has announced Japan will offer $4 million (about ¥450 million) in emergency humanitarian assistance, and indicated his idea to send to Myanmar a parliamentary vice minister for foreign affairs. One of his posts reportedly showed military activity in Rakhine state, noting Burmese military helicopters were flying over Rohingya villages. “For that reason, we communicated with the government of Myanmar, requesting cooperation and full and unfettered access to the country”, said the mission’s Chairperson, Marzuki Darusman.

Refugees reject claim that some Rohingya safe