Stranded Migrants Seek Refuge in Indonesia
Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya refugees have arrived in Indonesia while thousands more are believed to still be stranded at sea.
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Migrants sit on their boat as they wait to be rescued by Acehnese fishermen on the sea off East Aceh, Indonesia, on May 20.
Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya refugees have arrived in Indonesia, many requiring medical attention. Thousands more are believed to still be stranded at sea reportedly with no country in the region willing to take them in. Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim community have long been persecuted and marginalized by Myanmar's mostly Buddhist population
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Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants take a bath after arriving at the port in Julok village on May 20 in Kuta Binje, Aceh Province, Indonesia.
The Myanmar government says its 1.3 million Rohingya are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh, though many of their families arrived generations ago. Denied citizenship, they are effectively stateless and have faced violence and state-sponsored discrimination for decades.
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A child cries at a refugee camp at Kuala Langsa, Aceh, on May 15.
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Bangladeshi migrants pour water on the head of a man who had fainted at Kuala Langsa Port in Langsa, Aceh province on May 15.
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Rohingya migrant children sit on a pile of used clothes at a temporary shelter on May 19 in Kuala Langsa.
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A newly arrived ethnic Rohingya youth, who said he was injured in the eye during a brawl on the boat, sits inside a temporary shelter at Kuala Langsa Port on May 15.
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Bangladeshi migrants take their breakfast at a temporary shelter on May 19 in Kuala Langsa.
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Medicine and toothpaste believed to be belong to Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants lie on the shore in Biawak Hills at Langkawi, Malaysia, on May 14.
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An ethnic Rohingya woman weeps as she looks outside from a window at a temporary shelter for the migrants whose boats washed ashore on Sumatra island on May 17.
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A Rohingya woman, Samsidah Begom binti Abdul Syukur, cries as makes a phone call to her son in Malaysia at a shelter on May 12 in Lhoksukon.
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Migrants, believed to be Rohingya, raise their hands during an inspection at a shelter where they are staying since being rescued along with hundreds of others.
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A Rohingya migrant, who arrived in Indonesia by boat, holds her child's hand as they wait for breakfast inside a temporary compound for refugees in Kuala Cangkoi village on May 17.
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A Rohingya migrant boy, who arrived in Indonesia by boat, cries after not being able to contact his family by phone inside a temporary compound for refugees in Kuala Cangkoi village in Lhoksukon on May 18.
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A group of Aceh students hold a protest rally against their country's official policy to reject further Rohinya refugees by pushing them back out to sea, in Banda Aceh, northern Sumatra, Indonesia on May 19.
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Migrants believed to be Rohingya rest inside a shelter after being rescued from boats at Lhoksukon on May 11.
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Migrants believed to be Rohingya look out from the window on May 11.
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A Rohingya girl eats at a temporary shelter on May 17 in Kuala Langsa.
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Rohingya migrant boys, who arrived in Indonesia by boat, take part in a cracker-eating contest inside a temporary compound for refugees in Kuala Cangkoi village in Lhoksukon on May 17.