Tarun Karthick & Mohammed Saheed
Port Blair, 13 February 2023
More than 60+ Rohingya Refugees from Bangladesh landed this morning at Malacca Jetty in Car Nicobar. The refugees reportedly berthed their boat at the un-operational Malacca Jetty this morning.
Men, women, children, and even infants are onboard the boat.
The health condition of those onboard is still not known. Police reached Malacca Jetty immediately after receiving the information.
The general public is being kept away from the jetty.
Further information is awaited.
The Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar (previously known as Burma). Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an estimated 1.4 million Rohingya lived in Myanmar.