Rohingya Gather for Boat Trip to Malaysia

Cox’sbazar: About 70 Rohingya people and some local Bengalis have gathered in Cox’s Bazar near the western Burmese border for one week with plans of traveling to Malaysia via sea, said a Rohingya youth in the group on condition of anonymity.
We arrived in Bangladesh from Buthidaung in northern Arakan last week on our way to Malaysia and now we are preparing to buy a boat for our trip to Malaysia,” he said.

The traveling agent in Cox’s Bazar is collecting 20,000 taka from each person who wishes to travel to Malaysia in order to buy a boat.

The young man, aged about 20, told the Narinjara reporter at Kalataw Li Para in Cox’s Bazar that he brought 500,000 Burmese kyat from his home and spent 100,000 kyat getting to Bangladesh from Burma. He had already transferred 300,000 kyat to the agent for the boat purchase.

According to local sources, many people who came to Bangladesh from Burma on their way to Malaysia went into hiding after a recent tragedy where over 300 emigrants were feared drowned at sea after being stranded by the Thai navy. However, they are now joining back up again to travel to Malaysia themselves. continue
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