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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2023
Myanmar sends 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine

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TBS Report
21 April, 2020, 10:25 am
Last modified: 21 April, 2020, 10:49 am

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Myanmar sends 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine

Men, women and children belonging to the stateless and long-persecuted Muslim minority were among nearly 25,000 prisoners freed last week by a presidential pardon

TBS Report
21 April, 2020, 10:25 am
Last modified: 21 April, 2020, 10:49 am
Released Rohingya prisoners arrive in Sittwe jetty in Rakhine State after being transported by military boat on April 20, 2020. AFP Photo via The Straits Times.
Released Rohingya prisoners arrive in Sittwe jetty in Rakhine State after being transported by military boat on April 20, 2020. AFP Photo via The Straits Times.

Myanmar shipped 800 recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country's restive western borderlands on Monday, after fears that its overcrowded prisons could become hotbeds for runaway Covid-19 outbreaks.

Men, women and children belonging to the stateless and long-persecuted Muslim minority were among nearly 25,000 prisoners freed last week by a presidential pardon to mark the country's April New Year celebrations, New Indian Express reported.

A Navy vessel transported the group from Yangon to western Rakhine state, where most Rohingya live under tight movement restrictions and in conditions Amnesty International has condemned as "apartheid".

More than 600 disembarked near state capital Sittwe, while another 200 were taken further north to townships on the border with Bangladesh, state immigration department chief Soe Lwin told AFP.

"They will be quarantined," he added, without giving further details.

Myanmar's biggest prisoner release in years came as coronavirus fears gripped the country, with calls for low-risk inmates to be released from what Human Rights Watch describes as Myanmar's "horribly overcrowded and unsanitary" jails.

The World Health Organisation has also warned that prison populations are particularly vulnerable to the spread of the disease.

Myanmar has only 111 confirmed COVID-19 cases but experts fear the real number is many times higher because of the low numbers tested and the country's chronically underfunded healthcare system.

Pressure is also on Myanmar to improve its treatment of the Rohingya, after a bloody military crackdown in 2017 sent around 750,000 civilians fleeing into Bangladesh and prompted genocide charges at the UN's top court.

The country must report back to the International Court of Justice next month, to outline the efforts it was taking to protect the minority.

Hundreds of Rohingya have been arrested and charged with immigration offences in recent years after trying to flee Rakhine state and seek refuge in other countries.

But the Rohingya garner little sympathy within Myanmar, where they are widely viewed as illegal immigrants even though many trace their roots in the country back generations.

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