SE Asia migrant slow deaths at sea reported off Thailand.
Article first reported in Phuket Wan Tourism News Picture: HRAS via MAREX. BANGKOK: An exhausted refugee on a stranded boat told Phuketwan today that life is slowly ebbing from the men, women and children on the ship, one of seven boats unwanted by the nations of South East Asia. The person. His voice was barely audible and he spoke in the Rohingya language.. ���The Myanmar Navy came and damaged the motor of the boat so that it could not work.
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Survivors of a boat that sank off the east coast of Sumatra island -- among roughly 900 people rescued off Indonesia on Friday -- described a violent struggle between Bangladeshis and Rohingya for scarce food and space.. The captain and crew abandoned ship earlier this week, and as the boat was turned away first by Indonesia and then Malaysia, the Rohingya won a violent struggle for remaining supplies, said Bangladeshi survivor Muhammad Koyes. When we��.
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Tomas Munita for The New York Times. Many Rohingya came to Myanmar in the 19th century when the British ruled all of what is now India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. But the governments demand for proof of residence since 1948 is too onerous for. Seven million kyat is about $7,000. In some cases, the Myanmar Navy escorted boats filled with fleeing Rohingya and operated by criminal gangs out to international waters, Mr. Smith said.
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Several thousand people are believed to have boarded smugglers boats in the Bay of Bengal since the beginning of the year, among them Rohingya from Myanmar.. Mahecic said UNHCR was greatly saddened by this latest terrible ordeal, and commended the quick action of the Sri Lankan navy in rescuing this group and providing immediate medical attention. Violence in western Myanmars Rakhine state first erupted last June between different communities there��.
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The Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar by boat for years, but threats of deportations and lingering questions about citizenship have sparked one of the biggest exoduses the region has seen. Since mid-2012, an estimated 100,000 Rohingya have fled .
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SITTWE, Myanmar ��� Myanmars navy has carried out its first rescue of a migrant boat, bringing 208 people to shore, an official told AFP Friday, as it faced mounting international pressure to tackle a regional migration crisis. ���A navy ship found two boats��� on. The Thai-owned boat was guided to shore before dawn on Friday in Maungdaw township ��� the departure point for many Rohingya boats headed south through the Bay of Bengal. The second vessel was empty,��.
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Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand have come under increasing pressure to rescue a wave of starving and helpless Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants after triggering outrage by turning them back out to sea with scarce food and nowhere to go.. survivors of a boat that sank off the east coast of Sumatra island ��� among roughly 900 people rescued off Indonesia on Friday ��� described a bloody struggle for survival between Bangladeshis and Rohingya on board.
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It is thought that Rohingya boat people land along the Andaman coast for two reasons: because they run out of food, or because they hope to proceed to Malaysia on foot. For most. But the covert activities of the Thai Army have, for the first time, inadvertently connected the tourist holiday Andaman coast with the bloody conflict of the Deep South. It happened. Perhaps to India or Indonesia, if their food holds out, or to an uncertain fate on the high seas. Residents��.
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Migrants are stuck in a maritime ping-pong as Asian.
A boat crammed with migrants was towed out to sea by the Thai navy and then held up by Malaysian vessels on Saturday, the latest round of maritime ping-pong by Asian states determined not to let asylum seekers come ashore. The United Nations has called on countries around the Andaman Sea not to push back the thousands of desperate Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar now stranded in rickety boats, and to rescue them instead. Were not��.
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Myanmars navy has rescued a migrant boat after increased pressure from its neighbors to tackle the issue. But questions remain whether the state can aid the Rohingya, which have been the ��� Myanmar navy carries out first��.
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