Experts question legality of measure designed to curb virus spread, as thousands are left stranded overseas.
![Australian families - including Syam Mohan, his wife and their son - have been kept apart for months because of COVID-19 bans on citizens' travel [Courtesy of Syam Mohan]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Syam-option-1-cut-Mohan-and-his-young-family.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Experts question legality of measure designed to curb virus spread, as thousands are left stranded overseas.
![Australian families - including Syam Mohan, his wife and their son - have been kept apart for months because of COVID-19 bans on citizens' travel [Courtesy of Syam Mohan]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Syam-option-1-cut-Mohan-and-his-young-family.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Holding fake funerals or sending their children to China are among the ways Myanmar parents try to provide safety.
![Abductions and forced conscription in Myanmar send youth into exodus [Margarite Clarey/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/c5d067bd6e654e278ea4fb81b9dd1601_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Protests follow last week’s death of 49-year-old woman in cell, the 441st since landmark 1991 royal commission on issue.

Analysis shows ‘minimal preparation’ for return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State.
