Tuesday, 07 December 2010
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Officers from the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) arrested and forcibly repatriated 17 Rohingya men, women and children yesterday, according to a resident in Shapuri Dip.
The group was arrested yesterday morning while trying to enter Bangladesh through an illegal border crossing in Shapuri Dip.
Former Rohingya deportees have told Kaladan Press that many people try to cross over to Bangladesh from Burma to see relatives in the refugee camps or to seek medical treatments.
BDR Company Commander Kamorul Islam said that all 17 Rohingyas were returned across the border by about 11am of the same day of their arrival.
On December 4, BDR officers raided homes in Shapuri Dip where local people had provided shelter to illegal Rohingyas, but no one was ultimately arrested, said a local trader who refused to be named.
Source: Kaladan Press Network.
Link: http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2938:17-rohingya-pushed-back-to-burma.
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