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The Guardian: After 20 Days Adrift, Burmese Boat People Land with Tales of Abuse and Starvation

By Ian MacKinnon

For more than 20 days over 220 Rohingya drifted in a rickety open boat exposed to the tropical monsoon. As the craft drifted, 22 of them succumbed to dehydration or exposure and died; their bodies were thrown overboard. The survivors were discovered off the coast of northern Sumatra by Indonesian fishermen.

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