Eyewitnesses recall the incident involving some 500 Rohingya refugees who were stranded at sea last week. FMTNews Rohingya Refugee Sea
Rohingya refugees who were rescued by the Bangladesh coast guard sit on the shore in Cox’s Bazar, April 15.
Amina , a 14-year-old Rohingya girl from a small market town in western Myanmar, describes sitting on deck under the burning sun with hundreds of people for over two months. All the passengers on the boat believed that they were heading towards a brighter future and better prospects for themselves and their families, including work and marriage.
Some days before reaching Bangladesh, most of the smugglers abandoned the boat and its starving passengers. MSF medics stabilised those who were acutely unwell and referred five people to MSF hospitals for malnutrition with severe complications and other conditions. MSF mental health teams provided counselling to the survivors.
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