Burma’s boatpeople ‘faced choice of annihilation or risking their lives at sea’ | World news | The Guardian

Burma’s boatpeople ‘faced choice of annihilation or risking their lives at sea’ | World news | The Guardian

Burma’s boatpeople ‘faced choice of annihilation or risking their lives at sea’

Thousands of members of the Rohingya, a Burmese minority group, are now
adrift in the Andaman Sea, with aid groups fearing ‘boatloads of
corpses’ 

 

 

Migrants are towed out to sea by a Thai naval vessel near the island of
Koh Lipe because the Thai government, along with others in the region,
refuses to let them land. Photograph: Aubrey Belford/Reuters