SITTWE (Myanmar): More than 700 migrants found adrift on a fishing boat six days ago disembarked in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine as the United States warned it was monitoring their fate “very closely”.
Before they were intercepted the migrants had been heading south towards Malaysia, which along with Indonesia and Thailand, has seen 3,500 hungry people arrive in recent weeks in a migrant crisis that erupted after a crackdown on people-smuggling.
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