Narinjara news
76 Burmese Prisoners to
go back home from Bangladesh
Dhaka, June 12: Seventy-six Burmese prisoners detained in the prison
in the north-eastern district of Sylhet in Bangladesh will go back home after
five years’ imprisonment, sources said.
The long-awaited decision has been taken after diplomatic talks between the two
countries. It is expected that, the prisoners will be sent back to
At least 552 Burmese prisoners at the Bandarban jail in the south-eastern part
of
After a number of news articles were published in various media including the
BBC, VOA, RFA, DVB and many of the local and international newspapers, the
Burmese junta at last felt the pinch and were left with no other option than
recognise their own citizens in the Bangladeshi jails.
Among the nearly one thousand Burmese presently languishing in the Bangladeshi
prisons, many have already spent five/six years after the expiry of their jail
terms. A source in the prison told our correspondent that, as soon as a Thai
national in the prison is reported to the Thai Embassy officials, the
respective official comes instantly calling to the prison, while even after
many repeated reports from the prison authority, the Burmese Embassy in
“Due to forced relocation conducted by the Burmese junta (self-styled SPDC)
with its military, the permanent addresses of many of the prisoners have long
been missing for which after repeated appeals from the
He also added that many of the Burmese police officials being reluctant to go
to inquire about the hard to reach village addresses of the prisoners often
give false reports to the Burmese authority. “The seventy-six Burmese prisoners
who the Burmese junta recognise are only from the bigger cities while the fate of
the nearly one thousand prisoners still lies in the balance,” he said.
The majority of the Burmese were arrested from Thai fishing trawlers illegally
operating in the