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Nearly 100 Rohingya rescued off Indonesia
Amnesty International Indonesia’s executive director Usman Hamid urged authorities to treat the latest arrivals humanely
Nearly 100 Rohingya from Myanmar, including 30 children, have been rescued from a rickety wooden boat off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, a maritime official said Wednesday.
Images shot from Indonesian rescue boats showed dozens of children and adults, many weeping, after they had been plucked from their vessel by local fishermen.
“The boat with Rohingya onboard was broken and floating in the middle of the sea when the fishermen found them,” said Muhammad Nasir, head of the maritime authority in Sumatra’s northernmost Aceh province.
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It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]
