Dozens of Rohingya refugees have been discovered on a seaside in Indonesia after weeks at sea in a rickety boat.
At least 180 different Rohingya who left Bangladesh final month are feared to have died at sea, the UN refugee company stated.
Their deaths would make 2022 one of many deadliest years for members of the Muslim minority ethnic group, who face persecution in Myanmar and depressing situations in Bangladeshi refugee camps.
The “unseaworthy” boat went lacking at sea and doubtless sank, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated.
“Relatives have lost contact,” the company wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “Those last in touch presume all are dead.”
The group of 58 weak and hungry males got here ashore in Aceh province on the northwest tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Christmas Day, native individuals instructed the authorities.
Their boat landed on Indra Patra seaside in Ladong village.
More than a million Rohingya refugees reside in crowded camps in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, together with tens of hundreds who fled Myanmar after its army started a lethal crackdown in 2017.
In Buddhist-majority Myanmar, most Rohingya Muslims are denied citizenship and seen as unlawful immigrants.
Nearly 200 Rohingya had been already feared useless or lacking at sea to date this 12 months.
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2013 is regarded as the deadliest 12 months on file for Rohingya refugees.
That 12 months, 900 Rohingya died or went lacking within the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Myanmar, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.
In 2014 an estimated 700 individuals had been useless or lacking.
The numbers of Rohingya who’ve left Bangladesh in boats has elevated five-fold up to now 12 months, rights teams have estimated.
Last 12 months the army took management of Myanmar in a lethal coup that compelled a whole bunch of hundreds to flee.
Security forces in Myanmar have been accused of mass rapes and killings of Rohingya individuals and the burning of hundreds of their houses.
Source: information.sky.com”