Post by cjm on May 15, 2015 17:30:41 GMT
have a problem with illegal immigrants.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/700-migrants-rescued-indonesia-150515061549529.html
About 900 migrants have landed on the shores of Indonesia and Thailand after being adrift at sea for weeks, authorities said.
The migrants are among the few who have successfully sneaked past a wall of resistance mounted by Southeast Asian countries who are turning them away.
Several thousand refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar - fleeing either poverty or persecution - are believed to be adrift on boats in the Andaman Sea in what has become a spiralling humanitarian crisis, reported the Associated Press news agency.
About 900 migrants have landed on the shores of Indonesia and Thailand after being adrift at sea for weeks, authorities said.
The migrants are among the few who have successfully sneaked past a wall of resistance mounted by Southeast Asian countries who are turning them away.
Several thousand refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar - fleeing either poverty or persecution - are believed to be adrift on boats in the Andaman Sea in what has become a spiralling humanitarian crisis, reported the Associated Press news agency.