Bangladesh police arrested ten Burmese Muslims on 18 March while there were staying at a hotel in Cox's Bazar on their way to Malaysia via sea, reported a local police source.
The arrestee's have been identified as Nurl Hossein, Anna Wa, Shik Htinda, Mumad Ahlong, Ahbu Bawsaw, Sawrawa, Yusu Ahmout, Abhu Kalan, Sai Furahman, and Sulartan Ahmad - all from Nga Khura Village under Maungdaw, a border town in Arakan State near the Bangladesh border.
They were arrested during a raid at 11 pm of the hotel Zelarni, located on the main road in Cox's Bazar, conducted by a Bangladesh police team led by SI Marfuzar.
According to the sources report, the ten had come to Bangladesh in order to travel to Malaysia under an arrangement with a trafficking syndicate, having paid a large sum of money to be taken to Malaysia via sea on a machine boat.
In Arakan State many young people, Buddhist as well as Muslim, have been leaving for neighboring countries to escape the economic crisis and oppression of the Burmese military junta throughout the state.
It has been learned that about 40 percent of Arakanese youth from Arakan State have already left for neighboring countries, including Malaysia and Thailand, during the last five years due to the economic and political crisis in the their homeland. #
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