
LAMPANAH, Indonesia: A boat carrying 69 Rohingya Muslims landed in Aceh province of Indonesia on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said, the latest in a wave of arrivals as hundreds flee desperate conditions in Bangladeshi refugee camps.
Hundreds of memberas of the persecuted religious and ethnic minority driven from Myanmar have reached Aceh in the past few months, even as an untold number have perished at sea from disease, hunger and fatigue.