HUDDLED in a small boat with 80 others, Amina (not her real name) survived on some biscuits and little water for 20 days in rough waters to get to Southern Thailand from the coast of Rakhine state, Myanmar.
“It was hard. Some people got sick and some died. We had to throw the dead into the sea,” she recalls.
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