Children among those arrested last month as they waited for transport to take them to Malaysia
have been sentenced to prison by a military-backed court in Myanmar for attempting to escape refugee camps without the proper paperwork.
Local media reports suggest that since December 2021, some 1,800 Rohingya, including children, have been arrested as they attempt to flee camps.“The charges against them for travelling without documentation stem from the junta’s own refusal to recognise Rohingya as citizens,” said Daniel Sullivan from Refugees International. The Muslim minority group is not legally recognised under Myanmar’s 1982 citizenship law. This limits their access to basic services and freedom of movement.
In 2017, close to 75,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in an attempt to escape the military’s brutal persecution that is currently subject to a genocide investigation by the UN’s international court of justice. About 600,000 Rohingya remain in Myanmar’s Rakhine state where 142,000 are confined to closed camps.
The imprisonment of those under age, Kyaw Moe said, was a clear violation of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. “The international community must take more concrete actions to stop the atrocities, particularly Asean countries like Indonesia and Malaysia which are heavily impacted by the attempted departure of the Rohingya.”
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