Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Burma: Unwanted in their homeland, given no rights, Rohingya fear they will languish indefinitely in Thai jails

In Thailand, dozens of people from the ethnic Rohingya group who fled Myanmar remain in limbo in a Bangkok detention centre a year after they were brought ashore on the Thai coast.

Unwanted in their homeland and are given no rights, they now fear they will languish indefinitely in Thai jails.

Al Jazeera's Aella Callan reports.



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