'UNHCR urges other states to follow this example. Many others did not act despite numerous pleas and appeals for help,' the U.N. refugee agency said after Indonesian fishers and local authorities rescued hundreds of Rohingya asylum-seekers.
"We were raising alarm about this boat in early December because we had information that it was in the regional waters at least at the end of November," he said."So when we first got reports that it was somewhere near the coast of Thailand, we approached authorities asking them to help, then when it was moving towards Indonesia and Malaysia we did the same."
"Currently as we speak, the only countries in the region that have acted are Indonesia, in big numbers, and Sri Lanka as well.", the Indian navy appears to have towed the boat into Indonesian waters after giving its desperate passengers some food and water. The boat drifted for another six days before it was allowed to land.
Relatives of around 180 other Rohingya who left Bangladesh on December 2 said Tuesday that they fear the overcrowded vessel has sunk in the Andaman Sea. Mohammad Noman, a resident of a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh,that his sister was aboard the boat with her two daughters, who are 5 and 3 years old.
;𠇊t least 180 Rohingya feared dead says U.N. refugee agency. Countries in the region fail to assist in locating and rescuing those stranded, passing the buck despite risk of lives lost https://t.co/Pm0IzpVNiP;”The captain of another vessel transporting Rohingya refugees said he saw the distressed boat swept up in stormy seas sometime during the second week of December.
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