UN: 180 Rohingya adrift on boat feared dead

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 27, 2022 12:41 am

DHAKA: Relatives of about 180 Rohingya refugees adrift on a boat for weeks in the Indian Ocean presume that all those on board are now dead, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, who are heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, undertake risky sea journeys from the Southeast Asian nation and refugee camps in Bangladesh every year trying to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

A group of Rohingya refugees wait to be transferred to a temporary shelter following their arrival by boat in Krueng Raya, Aceh province, western Indonesia on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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