Myanmar jails 112 Rohingya refugees and transfers a dozen children to ‘youth training school’

Myanmar 112 RohingyaAccording to state media, refugees are sent to prison for entering the country “without legal documentation”.

At least ten children have been sentenced to between two and three years in prison by the convicts. The adult sentence was five years.

According to police, the Rohingya refugee group was detained last month in the Ayeyarwady region of southern Myanmar.

In a report published on a state website, the refugees were referred as “Bengalis”, a term used by Myanmar’s military junta for its stateless minority community. Myanmar’s new light of the futureNewspaper on Tuesday

She said that 12 children and 47 women were among the refugees who entered the country by motorboat, without any official documents, and were later arrested near Kadonlai Island, the town of Bogale.

According to the report, five children under 13 years old were sentenced to two years in prison and seven children over 13 years. The remaining 53 men and 47 ladies were sentenced to up to five years.

According to a report by the state media, all children from Pyabun Prison were sent to Henget -O-San Youth School in Kaumu Township (Yangon Region) on January 8.

In August 2017, the Myanmar authorities began attacking Rohingya civilians living in Rakhine State. The military council has denied that genocide was committed against the minority.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, “Myanmar forces carried out attacks that resulted into widespread and targeted killings Rohingya civilians.”

Myanmar forces are said to have killed thousands Rohingyas and forced over 700,000 refugees to flee for the sake of their lives. Bangladesh.

More than one million Rohingya survivors are living in Bangladesh, in camps at Basan Char and Cox’s Bazar districts.

Each year, thousands of Rohingya risk the lives to travel from camps in Bangladesh or Myanmar to reach Muslim-majority nations. MalaysiaAnd Indonesia.

A boat carrying 185 Rohingya refugees arrived on Sunday in Aceh. This was the result of hundreds of people fleeing the conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh late last year.

Late last year, a few Rohingya men were killed. I arrived in Indonesia after a long journeyA boat that was damaged. A spokesperson for UNHCR said that almost 200 Rohingya were feared dead or missing at sea by 2022.