Simply labelling them as undesirable outsiders, and towing their boats back to international waters, as they try and approach the coasts of Indonesia, Malaysia, or Thailand, in an action that Human Rights Watch has recently called ‘playing human ping-pong’, is in this way not going to do away with the complexity of their predicament. Instead, we should face it as a common, shared human plight.
Rohingya issue puzzles even other Myanmar folk
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COMMENT It seems likely they may be a group with historically porous boundaries.
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