ロヒンギャ難民数百人がキャンプから失踪、密航か　インドネシア

【ジャカルタＡＦＰ＝時事】インドネシアにある難民キャンプに暮らしていた、ミャンマーのイスラム系少数民族ロヒンギャ数百人の消息が分からなくなっている。関係者らや情報筋が27日、明らかにした。隣国マレーシアに密航した可能性があるという。（写真はインドネシア・アチェ州ロクスマウェにある、閑散とした難民キャンプ）
　インドネシア北部沿岸ロクスマウェにある仮設キャンプには、昨年６～９月に約４００人のロヒンギャ難民が到着したが、今週には１１２人に減っている。
　地元当局も国連（ＵＮ）も、消息不明者らの所在を確認できていない。マラッカ海峡を渡ってマレーシア入りするために、密航業者に依頼した懸念が持たれている。
　国連調査団が「ジェノサイド（大量虐殺）」に当たると報告した２０１７年のミャンマー軍による弾圧で、ロヒンギャ約７５万人がバングラデシュ南東部のコックスバザールに逃れ、その多くが各地に設置された難民キャンプに身を寄せた。
　以来大勢の難民が密航業者に金を払い、バングラデシュからインドネシアやマレーシアに渡っている。
　当局によると最近では、ロクスマウェのキャンプにいたロヒンギャ難民少なくとも１８人と密航業者１２人以上が、同地から南方へ数百キロ離れたマレーシアに不法入国する際の主な起点となっているメダンで逮捕されたという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/01/29-16:06）

Hundreds of Rohingya are missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia and are believed to have been trafficked to neighbouring Malaysia, officials and sources said Thursday.
Just 112 refugees remain at the makeshift camp in Lhokseumawe on Indonesia's northern coast this week, well down from the almost 400 that arrived between June and September last year.
Neither local authorities nor the UN could account for the whereabouts of the refugees from the stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar, who are feared to have enlisted traffickers to help them cross the Malacca strait into Malaysia.
We don't know yet where they went, said Ridwan Jamil, head of the Rohingya taskforce in Lhokseumawe. But they'll escape if they can find any hole to leave because that is their goal.
A Myanmar military crackdown in 2017, which UN investigators said amounted to genocide, forced 750,000 Rohingya to flee across the border into Bangladesh's southeast coastal district of Cox's Bazar, where many ended up in sprawling refugee camps.
Thousands have since paid smugglers to get them out of Bangladesh, enduring harrowing, months-long sea journeys punctuated by illness, beatings by traffickers and near starvation rations to reach Indonesia and Malaysia.
At least 18 Rohingya from the Lhokseumawe camp and over a dozen suspected traffickers were recently apprehended by police several hundred kilometres south in Medan city, a frequent staging point for illegal crossings into Malaysia, authorities said.
The refugees have been asked not to leave the camp, the UN's refugee agency said, given the risks involved in making the journey.
But (they) left despite our constant efforts to remind them about the danger and risks they could face by leaving, including if they used the services of smugglers, said UNHCR spokeswoman Mitra Suryono.
But we have to remember that many of (them) have relatives in other countries such as Malaysia. That may be one of the reasons why they continued their journey, she added.
Rights groups blamed the Indonesian government, which drastically reduced security at the settlement when the Rohingya were placed under the supervision of UNHCR last month.
While Indonesia is not a signatory to an international convention on refugees, the move was a breach of its obligations to protect them, said Usman Hamid, director of Amnesty International's Indonesia office.