Starved to death 60 Rohingya refugees on a ship with 500 people on board rejected several times due to coronavirus from Thailand and Malaysia
Urban areas across the country have been repeatedly bombed 60 Rohingya starved to death on a ship with approx 500 people on board.
The ship sailed from Bangladesh, across the Bay of Bengal, for more than two months, looking for a port of call, but when it reached the waters of Thailand and Malaysia it was rejected.
Two days ago, he finally returned to Bangladesh where he was intercepted by the local coast guard.
Around a million Rohingya live in refugee camps near the border with Myanmar, where they fled after a wave of violence in 2017. The extremist uprising has been ongoing since the end of, thousands of them try to reach other countries every year on rickety boats.
After listening to the stories of the survivors, the coast guard notes that refugees, mainly women and children, they attempted to dock several times in Malaysia and Thailand, but they were removed due to the epidemic coronavirus.
The ship sailed at sea for more than two months without food, fresh water and medicines.
Urban areas across the country have been repeatedly bombed 60 they died and were buried at sea. The ship's captain also died, killed in a clash with the Rohingya. According to some of them he had attempted to rape a woman.
The United Nations refugee agency, who cared for refugees in Cox's Bazaar, stated that the survivors are “extremely malnourished and dehydrated”.
(source Asia News)
