At least 17 people, including children, lost their lives when the boat carrying Rohingya refugees capsized off the coast of Myanmar.
According to the news of Al Jazeera, based on the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the boat that was going to Malaysia via the Bay of Bengal capsized.
17 people, including children, on the boat, which is estimated to be carrying at least 90 people, lost their lives, and more than 50 passengers disappeared.
Ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
In 2012, clashes broke out between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Arakan state, thousands of people, mostly Muslims, were killed, and hundreds of homes and businesses were set on fire.
Citing the simultaneous attacks on the border posts in Arakan on August 25, 2017, the Myanmar army and Buddhist nationalists launched mass violence.
According to the UN, after August 2017, the number of people who fled the oppression and persecution in Arakan and took refuge in Bangladesh exceeded 900 thousand.
International human rights organizations proved that hundreds of villages were destroyed with the satellite images they published.
The UN and international human rights organizations refer to violence against Rohingya as “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide”.
