The group were arrested last month in southern Ayeyarwady and sentenced on Jan 6, while the children were moved to a “youth training school” near Yangon on Jan 8 theSun theSundaily arrest Rohingya children transfer documents Myanmar WorldNews
Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting to travel to Malaysia “without legal documents”, state media reported Tuesday.
The children were transferred to a “youth training school” near commercial hub Yangon on January 8, the newspaper reported, without giving further details. A military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh with harrowing stories of murder, rape and arson.Thousands of Rohingya risk their lives each year making perilous journeys from camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar to reach Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia.
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