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This R&D provides resources on Southeast Asia’s migrant crisis. Recently, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia have turned away migrant boats coming from Burma and Bangladesh. The migrants are fleeing political persecution, but Thai, Indonesian, and Malaysian authorities argue that they do not want to encourage future refugees to arrive and have cast the boats back out to sea. The United Nations has condemned the treatment of these refugees, mirroring its complains about European and Australian treatment of migrants over the past year.
Nearly 2,000 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh have been rescued or swum to shore in Malaysia and Indonesia http://t.co/ut10wodDto
— Castan Centre (@CastanCentre) May 12, 2015
Three Southeast Asia nations to meet amid migrant boat crisis http://t.co/iIwXVJsdCx
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 18, 2015
U.S. slams Burma’s treatment of Rohingya as humanitarian crisis on the open sea intensifies http://t.co/9OHVCMajkS pic.twitter.com/79SKS6BMIu
— TIME.com (@TIME) May 20, 2015