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This R&D provides resources on Southeast Asia’s migrant crisis. Recently, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia have turned away migrant boats coming from Burma and Bangladesh. The migrants are fleeing political persecution, but Thai, Indonesian, and Malaysian authorities argue that they do not want to encourage future refugees to arrive and have cast the boats back out to sea. The United Nations has condemned the treatment of these refugees, mirroring its complains about European and Australian treatment of migrants over the past year.
Nearly 2,000 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh have been rescued or swum to shore in Malaysia and Indonesia http://t.co/ut10wodDto
— Castan Centre (@CastanCentre) May 12, 2015
Three Southeast Asia nations to meet amid migrant boat crisis http://t.co/iIwXVJsdCx
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 18, 2015
U.S. slams Burma’s treatment of Rohingya as humanitarian crisis on the open sea intensifies http://t.co/9OHVCMajkS pic.twitter.com/79SKS6BMIu
— TIME.com (@TIME) May 20, 2015
IOM welcomes decision to save lives of #migrants at Sea in #SouthEastAsia http://t.co/HRirfSVaFH pic.twitter.com/5xOM3vdPuw
— IOM (@IOM_news) May 20, 2015
Thousands of migrants still trapped at sea in Southeast Asia with food and water running low http://t.co/Y9YNeF5hu0 pic.twitter.com/nJjwRgivPz
— National Post (@nationalpost) May 11, 2015
Imprisoned at sea: A horror story from Southeast Asia’s migrant crisis. http://t.co/McI1fAzeJz pic.twitter.com/57VnVNGe41
— Troy McCullough (@TroyWSJ) May 20, 2015
#Rohingya risk death at sea b/c they face annihilation in Burma. But Philippines govt says no travel docs, no entry. http://t.co/eES2aCbr6L
— Carlos H. Conde (@condeHRW) May 18, 2015
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Burma were spotted in the Andaman sea http://t.co/ntOD19MYmh
— TIME.com (@TIME) May 14, 2015
URGENT: 6000 people stranded in Asia’s seas need help: http://t.co/atIDug78xK pic.twitter.com/vGImkfehbC
— AmnestyInternational (@AmnestyOnline) May 19, 2015
Fears grow for 300 Rohingya migrants on boat not heard from for more than 60 hours http://t.co/sjHPU5l9Os pic.twitter.com/z6Gn97sntl
— The Straits Times (@STcom) May 19, 2015