Rescued Rohingya refugees describe high-seas terror


A Rohingya refugee sits outside the immigration detention centre in Lhokseumawe, Aceh. – AFP pic, June 28, 2020.

A GROUP of Rohingya say they were beaten by traffickers and drank their own urine to stay alive on a perilous four-month journey at sea until their dramatic rescue near the Indonesian coast.

The bedraggled survivors – about 100 in all, mostly women and children – described a high-seas horror story that saw them reduced to throwing the dead overboard as their rickety craft drifted thousands of kilometres towards Malaysia.


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