About 3,000 Rohingya families are awaiting deportation in Saudi prisons, but like the rest of their people, they have nowhere to go
- Syed Neaz Ahmad
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 12 October 2009
They have been described as some of the world’s most persecuted refugees, and among the most forgotten, too. During my imprisonment in Jeddah I saw and met hundreds of inmates from Burma.
Thousands of Burmese Muslims from Arakan – often called Rohingyas – were offered a safe haven in Saudi Arabia by the late King Faisal, but with the change in monarch the rules changed too. What was to have been a permanent abode of peace for these uprooted people has now turned into a chamber of horrors.
Tags: Burmese Muslims, prisons, refugees in Bangladesh, refugees in Malaysia, refugees in Saudi Arabia, Rohingyas
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