Stranded at sea: the Rohingya

Issue Alert by Eva Pejsova.

Since January 2015, close to 30,000 Rohingya – a Muslim minority from Myanmar/Burma – took to the sea in order to seek refuge in Malaysia and Indonesia. The crackdown on human trafficking networks over the last three months has triggered a major humanitarian crisis.

With traffickers hastily abandoning their human ‘cargo’ at sea, thousands of people have been left at the mercy of the elements, political indifference, and inadequate migration apparatus.

European Commission: DG Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection: The Rohingya crisis: ECHO Factsheet, September 2017 http://ec.europa.eu/echo/files/aid/countries/factsheets/rohingya_en.pdf

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