Somewhere around 180 Rohingya refugees were stranded on a boat for weeks and feared dead. They arrived in Aceh, Indonesia, on Monday. The World’s Marco Werman tells the story of one of the refugees, and interviews Tun Khin, the president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization in the UK, about the crisis that has led these and other Rohingya to flee the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar some five years after escaping with their lives from their villages in Myanmar.
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