It was reported that 5 more boats carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees reached the Aceh region of Indonesia.
Indonesian Air Force announced that 5 boats carrying Rohingya refugees entered the country’s waters.
Authorities stated that patrols were intensified in the region after the increase in the number of Rohingya refugees coming to Indonesia.
More than 300 Rohingya Muslims came
Two boats with more than 300 Rohingya Muslims, including women and children, reached Indonesia on December 11 after a difficult journey at sea that lasted weeks.
The Indonesian government had announced that more than 300 Rohingya Muslims would be “temporarily assisted”.
The government called for help from the international community after more than 1,500 Rohingya Muslim refugees arrived in the country by boats since November.
Ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
In 2012, clashes broke out between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, thousands of people, mostly Muslims, were killed and hundreds of houses and workplaces were set on fire.
Nearly 1 million people, escaping the mass violence committed by the Myanmar army and Buddhist nationalists, who cited the simultaneous attacks on the border posts in Rakhine on August 25, 2017, took refuge in the neighboring country Bangladesh.
Many Rohingya Muslims are risking their lives and sailing on makeshift boats to escape from overcrowded refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh and go to other Muslim countries.
Bangladesh currently hosts more than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees.
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