Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka now all at sea

2017-10-12

Seven males, seven females and seventeen kids took a small boat from Tamil Nadu in April this year driven by a fantasy to illegally sail off to Australia. The small boat they used was so small that it wasn’t even suitable for crossing a river, much less a vast sea. The helpless group of Rohingyas became victims of two Indian human traffickers. The group consisting 31 people, including a pregnant woman, had been staying in several parts in India, including Jammu-Kashmir, Hyderabad and Thanjavur, for five years, starting 2012. They left India this year due to the fear of being sent back to Myanmar. Their decision to leave was largely fuelled by the attitude they took that they’d ‘rather die than be deported’.

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