Bangali Illegal Immigration Problems with Myanmar

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Recently, estimated 7000 thousands of Bengali migrants were rejected to settle in the area of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. They claim themselves as Myanmar citizens who fled from Arakan State. As a citizen of Myanmar, I must tell the truth that they are not from Myanmar. The root of these problems started from Bangladesh. Bangladesh already has 150 million population in 2013. Compared to Myanmar, it is more than 3 times crowded . They don’t have enough space to settle in and the poverty in Bangladesh is damn too high. So, they tried to immigrate the neighbourhood. There had been a lot of Bangali emigrants living illegally within Arakan State already. However, last year of violence were happened between Bengali and Arakanese people. The local people run away because of Jihad attacks from them. There would not be a problem today if the Jihad didn’t have the intention to occupy lands inside Myanmar. Myanmar government cannot allow further Bangali emigrants and another fact is that they are not willing to go back to Bangladesh. They can’t live better than other countries. Malaysia and Thailand are getting enough of their migration, they tried to immigrate and those countries trying to push them to Myanmar. One-sided media such as BBC, VOA and other unethical media trying to propagate that those boat people are from Myanmar and Myanmar is to blame. Fortunately, Myanmar Navy arrested two trawlers carrying 200 citizens of Bangladesh at the western coast of Arakan, recently.
Bangali Arrested in Myanmar
Arrested Trawler at western coast of Arakan
One of the trawlers, believed to belong to a Thai national Umint, left Ranong Province in southern Thailand on 8 April and entered Bangladeshi waters on 13 April. Small boats transported Bangladeshis in groups to the vessel anchored at an offshore island in Bangladesh. The trawler operator planned to set off for Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia but was forced into a U-turn as a result of sea patrols on 15 May. According to reports, the second trawler was hired to deliver supplies to the first. The second vessel was in Bangladeshi waters on 12 May after leaving Kawthoung on 4 May. It was intercepted in Myanmar waters on 21 May. The boat belongs to Ko Khine of Myeik, a town in Taninthayi Region. Aboard the trawlers were 208 Bangladeshis from Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong and northern Dhaka, 17 boatmen from Taninthayi and Ayeyawady regions, and three Bengali interpreters. Ten teenage children were among the boat people, with the rest believed to be between the ages of 30 and 40. The strong evidence manifested that the Bangali emigrants are not from Myanmar.
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Myanmar says finds 200 Bangladeshis, not Rohingya, in boat offshore
Fri May 22, 2015 5:12am EDT
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's navy found a boat carrying more than 200 Bangladeshis, the government said on Friday, after the military chief said some migrants landing in Malaysia and Indonesia this month are pretending to be Rohingya Muslims so they can get U.N. aid.
The western Myanmar state of Rakhine said the boat was from Thailand and the plan was to send the migrants back.
The remarks are sure to spark concern after the United States lambasted Myanmar this week for failing to address the cause of the crisis, which observers say stems from Myanmar's refusal to recognize the Rohingya, an ethnic minority group living in western Myanmar, as citizens.
Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million Rohingya are stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions. Almost 140,000 were displaced in deadly clashes with Buddhists in the state of Rakhine in 2012.
U.N. agencies have urged regional governments to protect thousands of migrants stranded on boats in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman sea with dwindling supplies.
The boat and a second, empty vessel, came from Ranong, in southern Thailand, the Rakhine state government said in a press release.
The plan was to send the migrants "back to Thailand".
Myanmar's navy found the boats on Thursday.
"While on patrol in Myanmar waters, the Myanmar Navy ship 568 found a boat loaded with about 200 Bengali and another empty boat at sea about four miles west of Thinbaw Gway Village, Maungdaw Township," Myanmar government spokesman Ye Htut said on his Facebook page, using the government's term for illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
Altogether, 219 people were on the boat, said Ye Htut, including nine crew members and "two Bengali interpreters".
He added that the migrants were "from Cox's Bazar, Chittagong and northern Dhaka," referring to cities and towns in Bangladesh.
Hundreds of migrants, including Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladeshis fleeing persecution and poverty at home, have been pushed back out to sea by Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia this month. Many now face sickness and possible starvation.
Senior Myanmar General Min Aung Hlaing "hinted that most victims are expected to assume themselves to be Rohingya from Myanmar in the hope of receiving assistance from UNHCR" during a meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday, the state-backed Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported.
"He stressed the need to investigate their country of origin rather than to accuse a country," the newspaper reported.
Blinken had stressed the need for Myanmar to address the causes of the migration, "including the racially and religiously motivated discrimination and violence".
Many Rohingya have long complained of state-sanctioned discrimination in Myanmar and are denied citizenship. Myanmar denies discriminating against the group and has said it is not the source of the problem.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday pledged assistance and ordered the navy to rescue thousands adrift at sea, and a Thai official said Myanmar had agreed to attend an emergency conference on the crisis.
Malaysia and Indonesia have also said they would let as many as 7,000 migrants on the seas now to come ashore temporarily, but no more.
Both countries have also said that temporary shelters would be set up to house the migrants but Thailand, a traditional transit point for those trying to reach Malaysia for work, said it would not follow suit.
(Additional reporting by Aung Hla Tun in YANGON; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Nick Macfie)


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