Indonesian protesters storm refugee shelter calling for deportation of Rohingya
Banda Aceh, IndonesiaReuters A large crowd of Indonesian students stormed a convention centre housing hundreds of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the city of Banda Aceh on Wednesday, demanding they be deported, Reuters footage showed. A city police spokesperson in Banda Aceh did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Two suspects, a Bangladesh […]
Almost 300 Rohingya found on beach in Indonesia’s Aceh
Banda Aceh, IndonesiaAP Almost 300 Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday after months at sea, officials said. The group arrived at Ujong Blang beach from one boat and were reported by local residents. Officials arrived and found that the Rohingya had dispersed into three groups after landing, Banda […]
ANNIVERSARY: 15 YEARS ON, A LOOK BACK AT THE BOXING DAY TSUNAMI
In a photo essay edited by KARISHMA SINGH and STEPHEN COATES, Reuters’ photographers captured the destruction after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people…