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Rohingya refugees recover in Indonesian camp – in pictures
Antonio Zambardino photographed some of the hundreds of migrants from Burma and Bangladesh who have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen.
Relevant thread: Help Rohingya refugees in Indonesia!
Antonio Zambardino photographed some of the hundreds of migrants from Burma and Bangladesh who have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen.
- Rohingya children from Burma and Bangladesh have fled persecution and poverty only to be abandoned at sea by human traffickers.
- Following his rescue, a man washes at the Kuala Langsa camp. Up to 8,000 people are believed to be stuck on vessels on the Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian coasts.
- Many of those who have been rescued from vessels have found with serious health conditions. Here a Rohingya man with an intravenous drip tube is walked to the toilets by a companion.
- Indonesian volunteers have tacked up toilet cubicles out of thin plywood and a mountain of second-hand clothes has been dumped in the grass.
- A mother and child seek respite from the sun at the Kuala Langsa refugee camp, where hundreds of migrants are now gathered.
Many of those on the ships have been denied citizenship and voting rights in Burma, even though many have lived in the country for generations.
- Rohingya refugees have spoken of horrors at sea: of murders, of killing each other over scarce supplies of food and water, and of corpses thrown overboard.
- The UN has warned that the migrants from Burma and Bangladesh could fast become a ‘massive humanitarian crisis’ because no government in the region is willing to take them in.
- Migrants from Burma and Bangladesh were at sea for weeks, surviving on minimal supplies given to them from the Indonesian and Malaysian navies.
- The refugees slept crouched and huddled next to each other on the ships, as many tried to save supplies for the women and children on board.
- Now on land, the migrants face new problems: a migrant mother has been reunited with her son who was abducted by locals and disappeared for two days.
- A young girl feeds spaghetti to a child by the mosque at the Langsa refugee camp. There remains an urgent need for medication and vitamins at the camp.
Relevant thread: Help Rohingya refugees in Indonesia!