Malaysia calls on Burma to stop oppressing Rohingyas
14 May 2015
A Rohingya woman holds her child as she looks out from her shelter at a displacement camp in Sittwe, Arakan State.
(PHOTO: AFP) AFP2,000 boat people have been rescued, swum to shore or turned away in Malaysia and Indonesia since last weekend.
Migrants groups warn that repelling boats could amount to a death sentence for people already at risk from starvation and disease after long weeks at sea, with recent arrivals saying many of their fellow passengers had died on the sea passage, their bodies thrown overboard.
Migrants-rights advocates also say thousands more men, women and children are believed stuck out at seaAFP
14 May 2015
A Rohingya woman holds her child as she looks out from her shelter at a displacement camp in Sittwe, Arakan State.
(PHOTO: AFP) AFP2,000 boat people have been rescued, swum to shore or turned away in Malaysia and Indonesia since last weekend.
Migrants groups warn that repelling boats could amount to a death sentence for people already at risk from starvation and disease after long weeks at sea, with recent arrivals saying many of their fellow passengers had died on the sea passage, their bodies thrown overboard.
Migrants-rights advocates also say thousands more men, women and children are believed stuck out at seaAFP
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