Left to starve at sea: Harrowing accounts from eyewitnesses

Left to starve at sea: Harrowing accounts from eyewitnesses - Hello loyal readers FeedGoogle, In the article you are reading this time with the title Left to starve at sea: Harrowing accounts from eyewitnesses, We have prepared this article well for you to read and take information in it. hopefully the contents of the post Article Malaysians, what we write you can understand. Alright, happy reading.

Rohingya refugees who were rescued by the Bangladesh coast guard sit on the shore in Cox’s Bazar, April 15. (Reuters pic)DHAKA: Loaded like human cargo into a wooden fishing trawler, around 500 people attempting to reach Malaysia from refugee camps in Bangladesh were starved and beaten by people smugglers during a two-month voyage. All of the passengers were ethnic Rohingyas from Myanmar, and most were aged between 12 and 20 though there were also some young children. Denied permission to land in Malaysia, the 400 or so survivors were eventually rescued on April 15, 2020 by the Bangladeshi coastguard. Amina (not her real name), 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. “We had to sit like this,” she says, hugging her knees to her chest. “People’s legs swelled…