Rohingya Refugee Boat Over Turns Killing Dozens

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“He just slipped from my hands,” said Rashida, as she described the moment her seven-month-old son drowned, one of more than 60 people presumed dead when a boat carrying Rohingya Muslims capsized off the coast of Bangladesh.

As the vessel broke in two, and one piece sunk, the force of the water dragged her baby under.

“The water was choppy and there was this big wave, and the boat just fell apart,” Khasim said.

The boat had departed at 8pm on Wednesday evening for a journey that should have taken a couple of hours at most. But the crew appears to have got lost, and survivors described being out at sea all night, with no food. 

“We begged the boatman to take us back, take us anywhere, just to get us off the boat,” Rashida said. When those on board finally saw land almost 24 hours later, they had no remaining food, little drinking water and dwindling fuel supplies. 

On Friday, bodies, including children and babies, continued to float to the shoreline. “They drowned before our eyes. Minutes later, the waves washed the bodies to the beach,” said Mohammad Sohel, a shopkeeper.

More than half a million minority Rohingya Muslims have fled an army campaign that has been described by the UN human rights chief as a “textbook example” of ethnic cleansing.

The violence – the latest and most deadly upsurge in years of government oppression and communal hatred between Rohingya and Buddhists in Rakhine – exploded on 25 August when Rohingya insurgents attacked army posts.

A ferocious counter-offensive has destroyed more than 200 Muslim villages, which have been shown by satellite imagery to have been burned. Refugees in Bangladesh have recounted horrific stories of rape, mass murder and infanticide.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/29/boat-carrying-fleeing-rohingya-muslims-capsizes-myanmar

 

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I can't believe this is happening in 2017

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That's very sad to hear that. But this poor country Bangladesh has no capacity to provide shelters but still giving to them. They should not turn the boat.. 

I repeat we have 163M people and total is only 147,570km. China is silent, Russia is silent. And the world stays silent, nobody cares! 

Tell me how this poor country will provide care to them? Why is the world silent? why? 

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And there's still no accountability from the Buddhist military and Burma central government...

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It's times like these that I truly believe the UN is a sham... diplomats just embroil themselves in a drawn out bureaucratic process that furthers nothing except their countries' political agendas. What a tragedy...