INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
an increase in cases of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar - who are staying in camps in Bangladesh - illegally crossing over into India through
camps in Bangladesh and were heading to New Delhi
included 11 men, three women and four children.During initial interrogation, Tripura Police has found that these refugees fled from a
Rohingya refugee camp in Chittagong in Bangladesh and in all likelihood, illegally crossed into India from the Sonamura border in Tripura's
arrested from Dharmanagar railway station in North Tripura district
Eight others were arrested from Khayerpur market area in West Tripura district on November 29 last year
Instances across the North East have also gone up since the 2017 crackdown against Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state by the Myanmar Army
Indo-Bangladesh and Indo-Myanmar border to ferry Rohingyas in and out of the country, officials said.According to sources, a joint team
comprising police and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers arrested the Rohingya refugees from near the Indo-Myanmar border
The entire operation was being led by the district Superintendent of Police S Ibomcha Singh.Baguna in the Rakhine state of Myanmar is one of
the conflict-hit areas where Myanmar's security forces have been engaged in a fierce fight and are allegedly driving out Rohingya Muslims.In
their interrogation, the refugees have revealed startling facts
According to CID sources, the three arrested Rohingya men were contacted by agents offering them jobs in Malaysia and were brought to
They stayed there for three days
The agents also paid 22 lakh in kyat (Myanmarese currency) to their families.They crossed over the Bangladesh border from Sonamura, an
infamous human trafficking corridor in Tripura and stayed in Agartala for a day
dominated area in Thoubal district
They there for five days before being further taken to the border town of Moreh, where they stayed for three more days, sources said.
