A filepic from May this year of Rohingya migrants in a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman sea. The boat was crammed with scores of Rohingya migrants, including many young children. On their voyage to a better life, several died on the boat. Photo: AFP
The strapping 23-year-old Rohingya Muslim was matter-of-fact as he described being forced onto a boat in Myanmar for a tortuous two-month-long journey, beaten and kicked by traffickers as he watched scores die of starvation and thirst along the way.
He says he was abandoned in May in a jungle camp in Thailand's deep south near the Malaysian border, discovered and rescued a few hours later by Thai police, and taken to a shelter tucked away amid tropical vegetation and rubber plantations.
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