In recent months, several hundred members of this Muslim minority persecuted in Burma have fled their camps in Bangladesh to try to reach Indonesia.
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Some 69 Rohingya refugees were rescued at sea on Thursday, March 21, after their boat sank the day before off the Aceh region, in Indonesia, noted an AFP journalist on board the rescue ship. The refugees were discovered clinging to the hull of an overturned boat, about 30 km from the coast.
A boat carrying more than a hundred Rohingya refugees, according to survivors, as well as a second boat on which they then found refuge capsized on Wednesday, local fishermen reported. Asked by AFP, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) did not react immediately.
In recent months, several hundred members of this Muslim minority persecuted in Burma have fled their camps in Bangladesh to reach the province of Aceh, at the western tip of Indonesia, on makeshift boats by sea. Since mid-November, more than 1,700 of them have arrived in Indonesia, the largest movement of Rohingya migration to the archipelago since 2015, according to the United Nations.
