UN refugee agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week
Each year thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives on long, expensive sea journeys — often in poor-quality vessels — in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.
At least 185 men, women and children disembarked from a rickety wooden boat at dusk on Ujong Pie beach at Muara Tiga, a coastal village in Aceh's Pidie district, said local police chief Fauzi, who goes by a single name.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is trying to determine if they were from a group of 190 Rohingya who were reported by the UN to be drifting in a small boat in the Andaman Sea for a month.
Lewa said arrivals were among five groups of Rohingya refugees that had left Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh in late November by smaller boats to avoid detection by local coast guards before they were transferred onto five larger boats for their respective journeys.
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