ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ေျပး၀င္ခုိလႈံလာသည့္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁၃၀၀ ခန္႔ကို ၎တို႔ ေနရပ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္ပို႔ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ထိုင္းလူ၀င္မႈ ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရး ဗ်ဴ႐ိုမွ ရဲ ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး Pharnu Kerdlarpphon ၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္ကို ယေန႔ထုတ္ ဘန္ေကာက္ပို႔စ္ထ္ သတင္း တရပ္၌ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ႏွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီမွ စ၍ ခိုး၀င္ ေရာက္ရွိလာသည့္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို ထိုင္းႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား ပူးေပါင္းကာ ျပန္ပို႔ရန္ စီစဥ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ျပန္ပို႔ရာတြင္လည္း လူနည္းစု အကာအကြယ္ေပးေရး အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားကိုလည္း ဖိတ္ၾကားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ၎က ေျပာသည္။ ထိုင္း ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားသည္ ႏွစ္ဖက္ အေထာက္အထားမ်ား ရယူကာ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ၃ လက ျပန္ပို႔ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
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Thai officials say Rohingya people sent to Myanmar
The Associated PressFebruary 13, 2014
BANGKOK — Thai authorities
said Thursday they deported about 1,300 of Rohingya boat people back to
Myanmar late last year, ignoring calls from human rights groups not to
send the ethnic minorities home where they face widespread
discrimination.
The deportations were announced this week but took place in waves from September through November, said police. Lt. Gen. Pharnu Kerdlarpphon. He said the asylum seekers were held in detention centers and shelters across the country.
The news was first reported Thursday by Thailand's English-language Bangkok Post.
"The deportations were voluntary. We sent them back 100 to 200 people at a time," Pharnu told The Associated Press.
"These people said they could not see any future while being held in Thailand, so they chose to go back to Myanmar."
Muslim Rohingyas face discrimination in Myanmar, where sectarian violence for nearly two years has left hundreds dead and more than 140,000 displaced from their homes. Many sought asylum and work in other countries, especially Malaysia, which has a Muslim majority.
Since last January, more than 1,700 Rohingya were arrested in Thailand after their boats ran aground in the country's south.
Pharnu said eight of the people detained died from diseases, while others fled the shelters or were sent to Bangladesh.
The Rohingyas in immigration detention centers have complained about the poor living conditions in the cells.
Human rights groups have urged Thailand to give Rohingyas access to the United Nations refugee agency so they can seek refugee status and have expressed concerns over their safety if they are sent back to Myanmar.
"Deportation to Myanmar means to send them to a place where they can face danger and persecution, and can be seriously abused," said Bangkok-based Human Rights Watch researcher Sunai Phasuk.
He said Thai authorities have not been transparent about the deportation process and the number of the detained asylum seekers.
The deportations were announced this week but took place in waves from September through November, said police. Lt. Gen. Pharnu Kerdlarpphon. He said the asylum seekers were held in detention centers and shelters across the country.
The news was first reported Thursday by Thailand's English-language Bangkok Post.
"The deportations were voluntary. We sent them back 100 to 200 people at a time," Pharnu told The Associated Press.
"These people said they could not see any future while being held in Thailand, so they chose to go back to Myanmar."
Muslim Rohingyas face discrimination in Myanmar, where sectarian violence for nearly two years has left hundreds dead and more than 140,000 displaced from their homes. Many sought asylum and work in other countries, especially Malaysia, which has a Muslim majority.
Since last January, more than 1,700 Rohingya were arrested in Thailand after their boats ran aground in the country's south.
Pharnu said eight of the people detained died from diseases, while others fled the shelters or were sent to Bangladesh.
The Rohingyas in immigration detention centers have complained about the poor living conditions in the cells.
Human rights groups have urged Thailand to give Rohingyas access to the United Nations refugee agency so they can seek refugee status and have expressed concerns over their safety if they are sent back to Myanmar.
"Deportation to Myanmar means to send them to a place where they can face danger and persecution, and can be seriously abused," said Bangkok-based Human Rights Watch researcher Sunai Phasuk.
He said Thai authorities have not been transparent about the deportation process and the number of the detained asylum seekers.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/02/13/3263470/rohingya-people-sent-to-myanmar.html#storylink=cpy
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