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Anger at secret moving of Rohingya

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 08:44

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Anger at secret moving of Rohingya

The Nation / Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: Residents in Nakhon Sri Thammarat’s Hua Sai district were upset after the provincial office for social development and human security yesterday relocated 99 Rohingya people from the shelter where they had stayed for 22 days to elsewhere without advance notice, an informed source reported yesterday.

The relocation prevented media from taking photos. Police were notified but not local Muslim people who had provided the Rohingya with food and commodity products and raised funds to cover their well-being for three months. The source claimed that some Rohingya family members were separated in the move.

The Rohingya were divided and sent to three locations; 44 to the Nakhon Sri Thammarat Shelter For Children and Families, 22 to the Songkhla’s office for social development and human security, and 35 to the Surat Thani’s office for social development and human security.

— Phuket Gazette Editors

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