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Around 100 Rohingya Muslims smuggled from Rakhine arrested in Yangon

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Myanmar Police have arrested nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims who were smuggled from Rakhine state. The Rohingya Muslims were arrested in a raid in Yangon. Yangon police raided two houses in Shwepyitha township and found as many as 99 Rohingyas. They had been reportedly hiding there for months. The authorities have quarantined them in a local university. Myanmar faces charges of genocide at the UN's top court over the Rohingya issue.