JAKARTA: A boat with 185 Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province on Sunday (Jan 8), a local disaster agency official said, following hundreds who arrived late last y
fleeing desperate conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Over half of those who arrived around 2.30pm Sunday were women and children, Ridwan Jamil, head of Aceh Besar disaster agency, told Reuters.Hundreds of Rohingya have reached Aceh in the past few months, including a boat that washed ashore carrying 174 in late December.deadliest years at sea in almost a decade for the RohingyaFor years many Rohingya have fled to neighbouring states such as Thailand and Bangladesh, and to Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia.
Fishermen in Aceh had spotted three boats they strongly suspected were carrying Rohingya refugees in waters near Rondo Island, state news agency Antara reported late on Saturday.Nearly 1 million Rohingya live in crowded conditions in Bangladesh, including many of the hundreds of thousands who fled a deadly crackdown in 2017 by Myanmar's military, which denies committing crimes against humanity.
Rights groups have recorded a significant increase in the number leaving the camps. It is not clear what is driving the larger exodus, but some activists believe the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions around Southeast Asia could be a factor.
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