IDI RAYEUK, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two Rohingya boat people found off Indonesia this week made more allegations of abuse by the Thai army, saying on Wednesday they were rounded up and beaten before being cast adrift in rickety, engineless boats.
Rahmat bin Mohammad Daud Yullha, 37, one of a batch of 198 Rohingya found near Aceh on Tuesday, told Reuters in broken Malay he had been jailed for praying in a mosque in his native Myanmar before fleeing to Thailand looking for work.
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