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Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on a Malaysian highway as hundreds fled an immigration ...

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KUALA LUMPUR: More than 500 Rohingya illegal immigrants have escaped from an immigration detention centre in Malaysia on Wednesday (Apr 20) morning, ...

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Six fugitives, including two children, died after being hit by vehicles while trying to cross a busy road. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Among those who died were two children - a boy and a girl. Commissioner Wan Hassan said all six fugitives who died had been hit by vehicles while trying to cross a busy road in Jawi, Penang, some 8km from the camp. They are believed to be barefoot, and police believe they would not have ventured far.

More than 500 Rohingya refugees escaped from detention in Malaysia following a protest but most have been rearrested.

Thousands more stay undocumented after arriving in the country illegally by sea. The Immigration Department said 528 Rohingya fled after breaking a block door and barrier grill at a temporary detention center in northern Penang state. Penang police chief Mohamad Shuhaily Mohamad Zain told local media that six detainees were killed while trying to cross a highway.

The Bangladeshi government has now closed all private schools in refugee camps. The government had previously permitted the schools to operate.

UNICEF supports 2,800 of the centers. He told VOA the learning centers teach children up to age 14, but the teaching does not go past second grade. It does not want Rohingyas to integrate into Bangladesh and permanently remain in the country. The organization Human Rights Watch said Bangladesh officials threatened to seize Rohingya refugees’ identification documents. But the government agreed in 2020 to permit them to operate and promised aid if needed. Bangladesh’s Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner provides humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees. The government did not give legal status to the refugee-led schools. But they were very important to the thousands of Rohingya children with very limited ability to go to school in the camps. The Kayaphuri School in the Kutupalaung Rohingya refugee camp was founded in 2019 by a Rohingya leader who was killed last year. Our leader…got verbal permission from [an official appointed by the government] to open the school. He told VOA the police took his computer and printer. The next day, police took seats from classrooms and locked the school door.

More than 500 Rohingya refugees escaped from detention in Malaysia following a protest and most have been rearrested.

Thousands more stay undocumented after arriving in the country illegally by sea. Malaysia doesn’t grant refugee status, but the country houses some 180,000 refugees and asylum seekers accredited with the UNHCR, including more than 100,000 Rohingya and other Myanmar ethnic groups. Penang police chief Mohamad Shuhaily Mohamad Zain told local media that six detainees were killed while trying to cross a highway.

In April 2022, Human Rights Watch, the European Rohingya Council, and 37 other concerned groups wrote to Canada, Denmark, the European Commission, Germany, ...

Bangladesh’s policies are denying Rohingya refugee girls and boys the chance for a better future. [iv] However, the community-led schools taught the Myanmar curriculum, in response to widespread demand among Rohingya refugees for education that will enable their children to repatriate and build successful lives in their homeland. The EU has prioritized funding for education in emergencies and pledged to “advocate for and support education system reform” in emergencies and protracted crises, “such as expanding and strengthening the teaching workforce.” [vii] EU law also links the preferential trade status granted to Bangladesh to its fulfillment of basic human rights and subjects Bangladesh to “ enhanced engagement.” The EU should ensure that its enhanced engagement also covers pressing human rights issues including all children’s access to education. We also urge you to pressure the Bangladesh government to officially recognize and approve the work of Rohingya community-led schools in the refugee camps and allow humanitarian funding to support formal, accredited education for Rohingya students, including secondary education. We therefore hope that the EU will publicly call on Bangladesh authorities to reverse their decision to close schools for tens of thousands of Rohingya children in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar who now have no access to education, and urge like-minded governments to do the same. In April 2022, Human Rights Watch, the European Rohingya Council, and 37 other concerned groups wrote to Canada, Denmark, the European Commission, Germany, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, about the government of Bangladesh’s closure of schools for Rohingya refugee children.

Malaysia set up roadblocks and deployed the police, immigration and volunteer security services after more than 500 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees fled a ...

The cause of the riot and break-out is under investigation. Some 23 guards were on duty at the time, and they called the police and other enforcement agencies for assistance, he added. Videos shared on social media showed mostly women and children jogging along the side of the road in the darkness.