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View all search resultsA group of 135 refugees, mostly women and children, were relocated from a beach in Aceh Besar regency of Aceh province to a governor's office building before the authorities eventually conveyed them by truck to a camping ground.
More than 1,200 Rohingya people, a persecuted minority from Myanmar, have landed ashore in Aceh since November, according to the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) in Indonesia, prompting concern among local communities about the scale of the exodus this year.
The refugees attempted to communicate in sign language to the residents to inform them that the ship's engine had lost power. After hours of preventing the ship from anchoring, villagers tried to pull the ship away to the open seas with a small boat.
Myanmar authorities have arrested more than 110 Rohingya, including children, for traveling "without official documents" as they tried to make their way to Malaysia, state media reported Friday.
A US class-action complaint, filed in California on Monday by law firms Edelson PC and Fields PLLC, argues that the company's failures to police content and its platform's design contributed to real-world violence faced by the Rohingya community.
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