|
Date |
Events |
Source |
| 01
Jan |
Fifty
Natala families begin arriving in Maungdaw Township, Arakan
State, for settlement in model villages. |
Kaladan
News |
| 02
Jan |
Thai navy
patrol arrests 72 Rohingya found drifting in a boat in Thai
territorial waters. |
Bangkok
Post |
| 04
Jan |
A Thai gang attacks two Mon migrant workers from Burma in
Mahachai Township, Samut Sakorn Province, Thailand. |
IMNA |
| 05
Jan |
Bangladesh
Navy arrests five Burmese and two Bangladeshi attempting to
travel to Malaysia. |
Kaladan
News |
| 05
Jan |
Fifty
boat people attempting to travel to Malaysia are stopped when
their trawler runs aground in Zalia Palong, Cox’s Bazaar,
Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
10
Jan |
Nasaka
establish new Natala villages in Maungdaw Township, Arakan
State, and confiscate 50 acres of land from Loung Don village,
Nasaka area 4. |
Kaladan
News |
| 13
Jan |
Malaysian
police detain a 21-year old Burmese man wanted in connection
with the attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl in Bagan
Dalam, Butterworth. |
Bernama |
14
Jan |
Thai authorities
arrest 109 Rohingya from Maungdaw Township in Thai territorial
waters. |
NMG |
| 15
Jan |
WHO
officials and academics collect DNA samples from 300 migrants
from Burma at Dr Cynthia’s clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand. |
DVB |
15
Jan |
Eight
people, including two young Mon, loot the property of Mon
migrant workers in Tha Chana, Surat Thani Province, Thailand. |
Irrawaddy |
| 19
Jan |
Seven
bodies found floating in the Srinakrin dam reservoir, western
Thailand, They are believed to be Burma nationals attempting
to cross into Thailand. |
Times
of India |
20
Jan |
Malaysia’s
RELA raids a camp and burns homes of 75 refugees form Burma
in Putra Jaya. |
AP |
| 21
Jan |
Thai
marine police arrest 43 Rohingya in a boat between Lao and
Mor islands. |
Bangkok
Post |
22
Jan |
BDR arrest
six Natala villagers when they try to enter Bangladesh in
Bandarban. |
Kaladan
News |
| 22
Jan |
Thai
police arrest a 28-year-old man from Burma when he sneaks
into a Turkish Airlines jet at Bangkok’s airport. |
AP |
22
Jan |
Two young
monks arrive in Bangladesh after fleeing crackdowns in Irrawaddy
Division. |
Narinjara
News |
| 23
Jan |
Saudi
authorities behead three men from Burma for armed robbery. |
AFP |
25
Jan |
Malaysian
police arrest 46 Chin refugees from Burma, including six girls
and two toddlers, even though they are carrying UNHCR cards.
|
DVB |
| 25
Jan |
Bangladesh
Rifles deport 19 Burmese nationals, including children. |
Kaladan
News |
26
Jan |
Singapore
authorities arrest two Burmese nationals attempting to swim
to Singapore. |
CNA |
| 26
Jan |
Bangladesh
Rifles deport a Rakhine man after they catch him in the Teknaf
border area. |
Kaladan
News |
28
Jan |
Thai immigration
officials arrest 300 undocumented workers when they raid the
Lai Ling garment factory, Mahachi district. |
DVB |
| 29
Jan |
Bangladesh
Rifles arrest and deport three Burmese men crossing the Naf
River, attempting to enter Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 31
Jan |
SPDC
authorities establish a new Natala village in Nasaka area
7, Maungdaw Township. |
Kaladan
News |
01
Feb |
255
people, mostly Karen villagers from Eastern Burma, arrive
at the Thai-Burma border. |
Irrawaddy |
| 01
Feb |
SPDC
troops from LIB 31 order 250 residents of Klone Kanyar Village,
Ye Township, Mon State, to leave within 15 days. |
DVB |
03
Feb |
One
dies and two are missing when a ferry rowboat carrying 35
refugees sinks crossing the Naf River at Nattaung Para Point. |
Reuters |
| 03
Feb |
Thailand’s
Mon community celebrates Mon National Day. Many Mon migrant
workers stay away, fearing police action. |
IMNA |
04
Feb |
In
Southern Thailand four migrant workers from Mon State are
attacked and killed and a boy is seriously injured. |
IMNA |
| 06
Feb |
Three
fishermen from Burma are rescued off the East Indian coast
after being at sea since 11 November 2007. |
Reuters |
06
Feb |
A
28-year-old woman from Nayapara refugee camp dies in childbirth
in Cox’s Bazar hospital, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 09
Feb |
Chin
asylum seeker is assaulted in New Delhi. |
Khonumthung
News |
11
Feb |
Bangladesh
authorities arrest four Burmese nationals in Teknaf when they
attempt to register for Bangladesh ID cards. |
Narinjara
News |
| 12
Feb |
Thai
police arrest 31 undocumented migrants from Burma after smugglers
transport them to Ranong Province, Thailand. |
Irrawaddy |
13
Feb |
Two
Thai gunmen kill a Mon migrant worker in Surat Thani Province. |
IMNA |
| 13
Feb |
Seminar
held on ‘Rohingya issue: national and international
perspective’ at Bangladesh’s Chittagong University. |
Kaladan
News |
15
Feb |
Nayapara
camp police arrest five people from Burma when they enter
the camp in Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 16
Feb |
Young
Mizo Association and Zo Human Right Global Network hold a
seminar on “Burmese Refugees Migrants in Mizoram”. |
Khonumthung
News |
16
Feb |
Six
Rohingya arrive in Bangladesh from Burma, fleeing arrest due
to an unregistered marriage. |
Kaladan
News |
| 16
Feb |
Bangladesh
Rifles deport 19 people from the Dum Dum Meah checkpoint to
Burma. |
Kaladan
News |
17
Feb |
RELA
arrest two Kachin UNHCR card holders and their children in
Kotaraya, Kuala Lumpur. |
Kachin
News Group |
| 20
Feb |
Six
Rohingya flee to Bangladesh due to SPDC extortion and movement
restrictions. |
Kaladan
News |
20
Feb |
531
people depart by boat from Akyab, Arakan State, for Malaysia. |
Kaladan
News |
| 22
Feb |
Scaled-down
Mon National Day celebrations held in Malaysia amid security
concerns. |
IMNA |
22
Feb |
An
explosion in a garbage dump in Mae Sot Thailand injures 14
migrant workers from Burma. |
Irrawaddy |
| 25
Feb |
Thai
police arrest six Thais on charges of murdering four Mon migrant
workers on 4 February. |
IMNA |
| 25
Feb |
Nasakaa
confiscates 350 acres of farmland from Rohingya farmers for
Natala villages in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State. |
Kaladan
News |
| 26
Feb |
Ten-year
old boy from Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, is killed in
Hat Yai when Thai police open fire on the truck he is traveling
in. |
DVB |
27
Feb |
Nasaka
deports five Bangladeshi women after they completed sentences
in Akyab prison, Arakan State. |
Narinjara
News |
| 28
Feb |
SPDC
Deputy Minister of Labor announces licensing of 40 new overseas
employment agencies. |
Irrawaddy |
| 29
Feb |
UNHCR
recognized refugee family from Arakan State surrenders to
Nasaka at a border point in Maungdaw Township. |
Narinjara
News |
| 29
Feb |
Fishing
trawler carrying 43 Rohingya leaves for Malaysia from Shapuri
Dip, Teknaf, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 29
Feb |
Malaysian
authorities detain 24 Burmese migrant workers working in a
supermarket in Sri Petaling, but possessing plantation sector
work permits. |
Bernama |
| 02
Mar |
Fifty
Rohingya and 21 Bangladeshi boat people rescued 280 km northeast
of Sri Lanka after 12 days at sea. |
Reuters |
| 04
Mar |
SPDC
attacks villages in Northern Papun District, Karen State,
displacing 2,100 people. |
Free
Burma Rangers |
| 05
Mar |
UNHCR
Dhaka office begins issuing new five-year ID cards to urban
refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. |
Narinjara
News |
| 08
Mar |
One
hundred and fifteen Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat people go
missing after their boat sinks in the Bay of Bengal. |
Narinjara
News |
| 10
Mar |
Activist
Moe Moe Sanda escapes to Bangladesh with her family. |
Narinjara
News |
| 10
Mar |
Maungdaw
Township’s Nasaka area 7 commander orders the village
SPDC members to collect lists of Rohingya abroad. |
Kaladan
News |
| 12
Mar |
Five
refugees from Burma are critically injured in a car accident
on their way to work from Dum Dum Mea Camp in Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 13
Mar |
Seventeen-year-old
refugee from Burma is critically injured in a hit-and-run
accident on the Cox’s Bazaar-Teknaf highway. |
Kaladan
News |
| 13
Mar |
Nasaka
begins restricting the number of 7-day-visa travelers into
Bangladesh to 25 per day. |
Narinjara
News |
| 17
Mar |
Seven
migrant workers from Burma shot in Imphal, Manipur, India. |
AP |
| 18
Mar |
Four
migrant workers from Burma murdered in Manipur, India. |
AP |
| 19
Mar |
Malaysia’s
Immigration Department detains a couple on charges of producing
fake certificates to get visas for Burmese migrant workers,
and blacklists four recruitment agencies. |
Bernama |
| 21
Mar |
Truck
accident on the Teknaf-Cox’s Bazaar Highway kills two
Burmese refugees and critically injures three others. |
Kaladan
News |
| 21
Mar |
SSA-S
defector Sao Mong Zeun orders Pa Hsang villagers to move to
Na Poi village tract, Nam Zang Township, Shan State, within
five days. |
SHAN |
| 22
Mar |
Malaysia’s
RELA rounds up 500 people from Burma, including UNHCR-recognized
refugees, children and pregnant women. |
Irrawaddy |
| 22
Mar |
Bangladesh
Rifles deport five Burmese Muslims for crossing the Naff River. |
Narinjara
News |
| 23
Mar |
Migrant
worker, thought to be Burmese, found murdered in Kuala Lumpur. |
Star |
| 23
Mar |
Bangladesh
police arrest seven people from Burma preparing to travel
by boat to Malaysia. |
Kaladan
News |
| 23
Mar |
Migrant
worker from Arakan State stabbed to death in a Thai factory
in Surathani. |
Narinjara
News |
| 23
Mar |
SPDC
authorities sentence 35 boat people to three to seven years
in prison in Akyab, Arakan State. |
Kaladan
News |
| 24
Mar |
Bangladesh
police arrest seven people from Burma preparing to travel
by boat to Malaysia. |
Kaladan
News |
| 25
Mar |
Bangladesh
Rifles arrest 13 Burmese Muslims in Cox's Bazaar. |
Narinjara
News |
| 25
Mar |
Bangladesh
Rifles detain 70 Muslims from Southern Maungdaw Township caught
crossing the border at Teknaf from Shapuri by motorboat. |
Narinjara
News |
| 26
Mar |
Thailand
Burma Border Consortium says that budget shortfalls are forcing
them to cut food aid to more than 140,000 Burmese refugees
in Thailand. |
AP |
| 26
Mar |
Six-year-old
Burmese refugee girl is critically injured in a hit-and-run
motorcycle accident crossing the Teknaf-Cox's Bazaar highway. |
Kaladan
News |
| 28
Mar |
Kuwait
Doint Relief Community distributes food to refugees in Dum
Dum Mea camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 28
Mar |
Thai
PM Samak says the Thai Navy is investigating the option of
resettling Rohingya on a deserted island. |
Bangkok
Post |
| 30
Mar |
Nasaka
releases over 30 prisoners to Bangladesh Rifles at Teknaf. |
Narinjara
News |
| 01
Apr |
Bangladesh
Rifles deport 53 Muslims from Burma after they cross the Naff
River. |
Narinjara
News |
| 02
Apr |
Riot
in Nayapara refugee camp, Bangladesh, over the closure of
MSF clinic. |
Kaladan
News |
| 02
Apr |
Bangladesh
Rifles arrest 25 Burmese nationals in Teknaf. |
Kaladan
News |
| 04
Apr |
SPDC
authorities in Karen State’s Three Pagodas Pass issue
an order to two families to relocate from Jueplut village
before the end of April. |
IMNA |
| 09
Apr |
Fifty-four
migrant workers suffocate in a freezer truck on the road from
Ranong to Southern Thailand. |
Reuters |
| 10
Apr |
Five-hundred
model villagers arrive from central Burma to resettle in Du
Shara Dan, Maungdaw Township, Arakan State. |
Narinjara
News |
| 11
Apr |
Thai
lawyers submit claims to a Chiang Mai court for workplace
injury compensation for undocumented Shan workers. |
Irrawaddy |
| 11
Apr |
Three
brothers from Burma are sentenced to 36 years imprisonment
in Malaysia after they are found guilty of attempting to murder
a SPDC consular official in 2004. |
Bernama |
| 15
Apr |
Twelve
Natala villagers rob jewelry from Nasaka family members in
Maungdaw Township, Arakan State. |
Kaladan
News |
| 16
Apr |
A
21-year-old man from Burma pleads guilty to causing the death
of a Nepali man in a Malaysian court. |
Bernama |
| 17
Apr |
An 18-year-old
refugee woman from Dum Dum Meah camp, Bangladesh, is raped
while fetching water. |
Kaladan
News |
| 20
Apr |
A
boatload of 50 young Muslim men from Arakan State drift ashore
at Hnitkayin village, Lamine Sub-Township, Southern Mon State. |
IMNA |
| 20
Apr |
Thai
police raid a coconut plantation in southern Thailand and
arrest 27 undocumented migrant workers from Burma. Three reportedly
drown attempting to escape. |
DVB |
| 21
Apr |
Seventy-two
people from Burma riot in Lenggeng immigration detention camp,
Malaysia. |
Reuters |
| 22
Apr |
Forty
Thai and Burmese labor activists lay a wreath in front of
the Thai Ministry of Justice building and call for justice
for survivors of the 9 April freezer truck incident. |
DVB |
| 23
Apr |
Diplomats
from UK, EU, Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy, and UNHCR
country representatives visit Nayapara and Dum Dum Meah camps
in Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 24
Apr |
Forty
Burmese refugees gather in front of the Cox’s Bazaar
UNHCR office in Bangladesh to appeal for resettlement of urban
Burmese refugees. |
Narinjara
News |
| 25
Apr |
Germany
adopts changes to immigration law to require Burmese citizens
to obtain a transit visa for stopovers at German airports. |
Earthtimes |
| 25
Apr |
Thai
court turns down application for worker’s compensation
from a Shan migrant worker injured while working in Thailand. |
SHAN |
| 26
Apr |
Thai
authorities arrest a Bangladeshi man accused of forging passports
for Burmese trafficking networks. |
Mizzima
News |
30
Apr |
Nine Rohingya
flee to Bangladesh from Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township. |
Kaladan
News |
| 01
May |
Migrant
workers from Burma join May Day marches in Thailand. |
SHAN |
02
May |
Thai court
hearing begins on the April freezer truck incident that killed
54 Burmese migrant workers in Thailand. |
Mizzima
News |
| 04
May |
Eleven
monks and two families from Arakan State seek refugee status
at the UNHCR in Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
Narinjara
News |
07
May |
A 22-year-old
Rohingya woman is raped by two Bangladesh rickshaw pullers
when she attempts to travel to Dum Dum Mea refugee camp. |
Kaladan
News |
| 07
May |
Nasaka
deports 37 Bangladeshi nationals after they serve three month
jail terms. |
Narinjara
News |
11
May |
Turkish
media and aid workers visit Dum Dum Mea refugee camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 12
May |
Burmese
activists protest in New Delhi, calling for the SPDC to allow
all international aid access to the Irrawaddy delta. |
Mizzima
News |
14
May |
Bangladesh
court releases from detention 14 Chin missionaries. |
Khonumthung
News |
| 19
May |
Seminar
held in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on the recent political situation
in Burma and the Rohingya issue. |
Kaladan
News |
20
May |
Deadline
for 2,000 cyclone survivors to leave shelters in South Dagon
Myothit and return to their homes. |
Irrawaddy |
| 23
May |
UNICEF
spokesperson says that the SPDC is forcing cyclone survivors
out of camps and “dumping” them near their villages. |
AP |
24
May |
Six-hundred
cyclone survivors from Maubin are forced to return to their
villages. |
Mizzima
News |
| 25
May |
One-thousand
cyclone survivors from Maubin are forced to return to their
villages. |
DVB |
26
May |
Clash
breaks out between cyclone survivors and police outside the
general hospital in Bassein when the authorities try to return
them to their villages. |
DVB |
| 27
May |
UNHCR
and Bangladesh agree to re-establish mechanism for deporting
Rohingya to Burma. |
Xinhua |
29
May |
Rangoon
Commander Maj Gen Hla Htay Win orders 500 cyclone survivors
sheltered in Rangoon’s Ahlone Township to return to
their homes within 24 hours. |
DVB |
| 29
May |
SPDC
evicts 2,000 people from Yilakana Kyaik Htkee Yoe Monastery
in Labutta. |
NYT |
02
Jun |
SPDC Navy
arrests 65 boat people near Zardatgyi Island, Tenasserim Division,
attempting to flee Bogale Township. |
Nation |
| 03
Jun |
Seminar
held on Rohingya issues at the National Press Club, Dhaka. |
Kaladan
News |
03
Jun |
Local
man rapes a refugee woman at Dum Dum Mea camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 04
Jun |
SPDC’s
eviction deadline for cyclone survivors sheltering in Yaukphaw
San Nyein prayer hall, South Dagon Township, Rangoon. |
Mizzima
News |
04
Jun |
SPDC Army
attacks Te Mu Der village, Papun Township, 1,000 people flee
to the jungle. |
Irrawaddy |
| 06
Jun |
Bus
carrying 23 migrant workers from Three Pagodas Pass crashes
close to Thomg Pha Phum, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, killing one
and injuring 10. |
IMNA |
07
Jun |
Disease
outbreak in Kutapalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, kills 18
children. |
Kaladan
News |
| 11
Jun |
Camp
authorities begin the eviction of 250 refugee families from
Dum Dum Meah camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
13
Jun |
Bangladesh
police arrest three people from Burma in Cox’s Bazaar. |
Narinjara
News |
| 16
Jun |
UNHCR-recognized
Burmese refugee dies at Chittagong prison hospital after two
years in prison. |
Narinjara
News |
17
Jun |
Thai authorities
detain 19 Shan migrant workers in a raid on their houses in
Fang, Changmai. |
SHAN |
| 17
Jun |
Twenty
Rakhine demonstrate in Dhaka over the prison death of a Burmese
refugee. |
Narinjara
News |
17
Jun |
SPDC authorities
order the relocation of 30 villages in Bogale Township, Irrawaddy
Division. |
Irrawaddy |
| 19
Jun |
SPDC
begins crackdown on human trafficking and arrests 200 people
in Kawthaung Township, Tenasserim Division. |
Irrawaddy |
20
Jun |
Refugee
camps in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, observe World Refugee
Day. |
Kaladan
News |
| 21
Jun |
Delhi
man kidnaps his 17-year-old Chin housekeeper. |
DVB |
| 22
Jun |
Three men abduct and rape a
16-year-old Mon girl in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. |
IMNA |
| 23
Jun |
UNHCR
reports that 30,000 Burmese refugees have been resettled to
third countries from Thailand since 2005. |
AP |
| 24
Jun |
BDR deports
21 Rohingya to Burma. |
Kaladan
News |
| 26
Jun |
Body
of a 14-year-old boy from Burma is found buried in a construction
site in Phuket, Thailand. |
IMNA |
| 28
Jun |
UNHCR
accompanies 150 Burmese refugees to Cox’s Bazaar jail
to visit refugee prisoners. |
Kaladan
News |
| 28
Jun |
Bangladesh
Rifles deport four Rohingya to Burma. |
Kaladan
News |
| 01
Jul |
Thai
gang fatally shoots Mon migrant worker at a rubber plantation
in Tha Chana, Surat Thani Province, Thailand. |
IMNA |
| 02
Jul |
Rohingya
refugee dies of starvation in Lada refugee camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 03
Jul |
Eleven
ethnic Padaungs go missing from Huay Py Ke and Huay Suu Htauk
villages, Mae Hong Song District, Northern Thailand. |
Mizzima
News |
| 03
Jul |
Rohingya
refugee dies of starvation in Lada refugee camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 05
Jul |
Malaysian
police arrested four Burmese nationals in connection with
the murder of a Burmese refugee. |
Bernama |
| 15
Jul |
Rohingya
refugee dies of starvation in Lada refugee camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 16
Jul |
Na Sa
Ka abducts 13 Burmese refugees from Nayapara Camp, Bangladesh,
while they are fishing in the Naff river. |
Kaladan
News |
| 17
Jul |
Thai
army deports 35 Karen who fled to Thailand because of fighting
between SPDC and KNU. |
Straits
Times |
| 19
Jul |
Human
Rights Watch urges Thai security forces to stop forcing refugees
to return to Burma. |
Straits
Times |
| 19
Jul |
Rohingya
refugee dies of starvation in Lada refugee camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 20
Jul |
Thai
police detain 20 undocumented migrant workers from Burma in
Tak Province, Thailand. |
TNA |
| 22
Jul |
Thai
Justice Ministry says that the next of kin for the 34 Burmese
migrant workers who died in the back of a truck will receive
35,000 baht in compensation. |
Bangkok
Post |
| 22
Jul |
SPDC
authorities in Moulmein, Mon State, arrest a female shop owner
in connection with the migrant workers who suffocated in the
back of a truck in Thailand. |
IMNA |
| 23
Jul |
Malaysian
police fatally shoot the leader of a “Myanmar gang”
near the Selayang wholesale market. |
Bernama |
| 24
Jul |
Seven
Burmese migrant workers and four Thais die at sea in a Thai
fishing boat. |
Bangkok
Post |
| 01
Aug |
Thirty-year-old
local man rapes a 12-year-old Burmese girl in Aizawl, India. |
Khonumthung
News |
02
Aug |
Singapore
refuses to renew the visas of three Burmese activists. |
Irrawaddy |
| 02
Aug |
Burmese
migrant worker dies in Mizoram, India, after being pushed
off a building. |
Khonumthung
News |
02
Aug |
Malaysian
authorities bring charges against a Burmese migrant worker
who threw a Molotov cocktail at the Burmese embassy in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. |
Star |
| 08
Aug |
Boat
carrying day workers living in Leda camp, Bangladesh, overturns
in the Naff river. One refugee is reported missing. |
Kaladan
News |
10
Aug |
Rohingya
woman dies during childbirth after receiving no medical assistance
in Leda refugee camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 10
Aug |
Cyclone
survivor camps close in Labutta Township, Irrawaddy Division. |
Irrawaddy |
19
Aug |
UNHCR
begins two-day consultation with refugees in Cox’s Bazaar,
Bangladesh. |
Narinjara
News |
| 22
Aug |
Locals
severely beat Rohingya refugee traveling between Leda and
Nayapara camps, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
24
Aug |
Thai authorities
detain three Padaung in Mae Hong Son, Thailand, on charges
of being involved in the trafficking of eight other Padaung. |
Irrawaddy |
| 30
Aug |
Indian
authorities release 15 imprisoned Muslim migrant workers from
Burma after spending a year in Moreh jail, Manipur, for migration
law violations. |
Imphal
Free Press |
05
Sep |
Japanese
court grants refugee status to a pro-democracy musician from
Burma. |
AP |
| 08
Sep |
Women
refugees from Burma riot in Leda camp, Bangladesh, after the
health clinic refuses a woman service. |
Kaladan
News |
09
Sep |
Twenty-year-old
man rapes a 14-year-old refugee girl from Burma in Umpiem
Mai refugee camp, Thailand. |
Kaowao
News |
| 11
Sep |
Locals
attack a truck carrying rice rations to Leda refugee camp
in Bangladesh. Twelve refugees receive bullet wounds when
they attempt to defend the supply. |
Kaladan
News |
16
Sep |
Four locals
rape a 25-year-old refugee woman from Burma in front of her
child at the entrance of Leda refugee camp, Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 17
Sep |
Singapore
Minister for Home Affairs says that a decision to not renew
visas of Burmese activists was because the individuals were
“undesirable”, and not as a consequence of political
pressure. |
AFP |
| 17
Sep |
Thailand’s
Samut Sakhorn Labor Court orders a Thai fishing company to
pay 4.9 million baht in compensation to 38 migrant workers
who were abandoned at sea. |
Irrawaddy |
| 17
Sep |
Thai
police raid a garment factory in Sankhlaburi and arrest 56
Burmese migrant workers. |
Kaowao
News |
| 19
Sep |
Thirty-nine-year-old
man from Burma dies in a Bangladesh after three years in prison
on migration law violations. |
Narinjara
News |
| 22
Sep |
Thai
court in Ranong orders a Thai life insurance company to pay
100,000 baht in benefits to each family of the 54 Burmese
who died from suffocation while being trafficked in a container
truck in April 2008. |
DVB |
| 25
Sep |
South
Korea’s supreme court upholds a decision to grant refugee
status to eight NLD members. |
AP |
| 27
Sep |
About
40 Rohingya from Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships, Arakan
State, cross the Burma-Bangladesh border to travel by boat
to Malaysia. |
Kaladan
News |
| 30
Sep |
Indian
Border security forces arrest 35 Burmese, including 20 children,
who were attempting to cross the Indian border into Pakistan. |
Punjab
Newswire |
| 02
Oct |
Eight
locals attack seven Burmese refugees and two Bangladeshis
in Teknaf. |
DVB |
| 02
Oct |
Thai
police arrest four Burmese accused of sex trafficking in Htarsa,
Samut Sakorn Province, Thailand. |
Kaowao
News |
| 05
Oct |
Eighteen
undocumented migrant workers from Burma and Pakistan are killed
in truck crash in Turkey. |
Reuters |
| 11
Oct |
Assam
Rifles detain two Burmese youth attempting to travel to Imphal
to study. |
Sangai
Express |
| 14
Oct |
Na
Sa Ka arrests a human trafficker in Maungdaw Township, Arakan
State, and releases him two hours later after he pays a bribe. |
Kaladan
News |
| 23
Oct |
Tokyo
High court recognizes 57-year-old Burmese man Bual Hre as
political refugee. |
Kyodo
News Agency |
| 23
Oct |
ILO
begins survey of skills and working conditions of Burmese
in Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 02
Nov |
DKBA
attacks on KNLA Battalion 201 in Kawkareik Township displace
500 Karen villages. |
Irrawaddy |
06
Nov |
Bangladesh
border security deport 12 Burmese, including five children,
attempting to travel to Bangladesh for medical treatment. |
Kaladan
News |
| 07
Nov |
One hundred
and twenty people boat people, most of whom are Rohingya,
leave for Malaysia from Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
09
Nov |
One
hundred people boat people, most of whom are Rohingya, leave
for Malaysia from Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 10
Nov |
One hundred
and forty boat people, most of whom are Rohingya, leave for
Malaysia from Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
11
Nov |
One
hundred and fifty boat people, most of whom are Rohingya,
leave for Malaysia from Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
| 11
Nov |
Three-month
old girl dies of diarrhea after waiting five hours to receive
treatment at the health clinic in Naya Para refugee camp,
Bangladesh. |
Kaladan
News |
12
Nov |
A
group of refugees on their way to collect firewood from Leda
camp, Bangladesh, are stopped and beaten by locals. |
Kaladan
News |
| 14
Nov |
Writer
Hnin Pan Ein arrives at the Thai-Burma border fleeing threat
of imprisonment. |
Mizzima
News |
|
24
Nov |
Nasaka
personnel seize an engine boat carrying 47 boat people. |
Kaladan
News |
| 27
Nov |
Thai
Supreme Court turns down petition of Shan migrant worker for
compensation for a workplace injury that left her permanently
paralyzed. |
SHAN |
|
30
Nov |
A fish
cannery in Pattaya, Thailand, lays off 45 migrant workers
from Burma. |
IMNA |
01
Dec |
About
100 boat people from Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships in
Arakan State leave for Malaysia. |
Kaladan
News |
|
01
Dec |
SPDC PM
Gen Thein Sein says that there are “plenty of jobs available
for millions of migrant workers if they are forced to return
home.” |
Irrawaddy |
03
Dec |
Tokyo
police announce the arrest of two men for smuggling five women
from Burma. |
Mainichi
Daily News |
|
08
Dec |
SPDC soldiers
apprehend about 108 Rohingya boat people in Thilawa Port,
Rangoon Division, after a storm sweep off-course their boat. |
DVB |
11
Dec |
China
says it has made major progress in combating human trafficking
from Burma. |
Reuters |
|
15
Dec |
At least
seven migrant workers and their Thai driver are killed in
a road accident in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. |
AFP |
15
Dec |
Ninety-seven
Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat people left for Malaysia from
Bahar Sara in Cox's Bazaar district. |
Kaladan
News |
|
16
Dec |
Thai authorities
sentence 15 migrant workers from Burma, including a 15-year-old
girl, to four years in jail for working in Bangkok with fake
work permits. |
DVB |
17
Dec |
Malaysian
authorities deport 40 migrant workers to Burma after they
protest against new government restrictions on migrant workers. |
DVB |
|
18
Dec |
Japanese
officials announce they will accept 30 Burmese refugees for
resettlement from camps in Thailand. |
AFP |
29
Dec |
Indian
authorities say that about 300 of 412 boat people from Bangladesh
and Burma are presumed dead in the Bay of Bengal. |
Reuters |
|
30
Dec |
Indian
military forces apprehend four Burmese nationals from Arakan
State, for attempting to enter into India without proper documents. |
Imphal
Free Press |