Some 160 Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar and were seeking to leave a camp in Bangladesh, have been adrift in the Andaman sea for more than two weeks.
, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar and settled in Cox’s Bazar, a city on the southeast coast of Bangladesh, forming what has become the biggest refugee camp in the world.
The stranded boat departed Cox’s Bazar in late November and was bound for Indonesia — more than 1,000 miles away — where passengers hoped to stay or to head on to Malaysia, where there’s a large Rohingya population. But on Dec. 4, the captain of the boat sent out distress signals via a satellite phone — the engine had failed, the captain said, and supplies of food were dwindling.
India’s Ministry of Defense, which oversees the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center, and its Ministry of External Affairs did not respond to inquiries Thursday. Officials in Thailand and Malaysia also did not respond to inquires this week about whether they planned to assist the boat.
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