Myanmar shipped hundreds of recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country’s restive western borderlands, after fears that its overcrowded prisons could become hotbeds for runaway coronavirus outbreaks.
Men, women and children belonging to the stateless and long-persecuted Muslim minority were among nearly 25,000 prisoners freed last week by a presidential pardon to mark the country’s April New Year celebrations.
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