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A Bangladeshi man is assisted by an Indian coast guard officer afterSanjib Kumar / Reuters being rescued off the coast of the Andaman Islands on Dec. 28
Around early December in eastern Bangladesh, hundreds of people boarded a few rickety wooden boats and embarked on a journey they thought would convey them to a better life. They would perhaps land on Thailand’s southwestern coast and then seek work there or in the Muslim promised land of Malaysia. On Dec. 28, 98 of them were found drifting by India’s remote Andaman Islands, starving and dehydrated, a picture of the hardship weathered by generations of boat people fleeing adversity only to fall into even greater trials.
More from Ishan Tharoor’s report.
what about the thousands living out of reality in camps by teknaf, for so long that they no longer sing their songs. neither permitted to integrate nor assured safe return and itendity in their homelands.
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