More Rohingyas fleeing Rakhine

YANGON: A climate of fear in Rakhine state is pushing stateless Rohingya Muslims to flee in “unprecedented” numbers, with almost 10,000 people taking to boats in the region in just two weeks, activists said.

A surge in boats leaving from northern Rakhine, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya live in isolated communities, had seen around 900 people a day making the perilous journey by sea, according to the Arakan Project, a Rohingya rights group.