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Please give us water: The desperate cries
of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants adrift on boat turned away from
Thailand [Photo report]
By
David Sim
May 14, 2015 15:15 BST
A wooden
fishing boat carrying an estimated 400 Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims from
Myanmar is adrift in the Andaman Sea off the island of Koh Lipe.
New York Times journalist Thomas Fuller said
the migrants pleaded desperately as he and other journalists approached
the boat, crying: "Please help us! I have no water! Please give me
water!"
(Christophe Archambault/AFP)(Christophe Archambault/AFP)(Christophe
Archambault/AFP)(Reuters)
The migrants have been kept alive by food and water passed to them from fishing
boats.
Reports say they have been forced to drink their own urine in a bid to survive.
Thai fishermen give supplies to migrants on a boat drifting 17km (10 miles) off
the coast of Koh Lipe(Reuters)
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The passengers said they had been onboard the boat for three months.
They said 10 passengers who died on the voyage had been thrown
overboard.
Thai authorities refused to grant permission for the boat to land.
Regional police official Major General Puttichat Akhachan told Reuters:
"We declined them entry to the country but we gave them food and water
to adhere to our human rights obligations."
Somchai Na Bangchang, a rear admiral in the Royal Thai Navy, said the
migrants did not want to land in Thailand but instead wanted to go to
Malaysia or Indonesia.
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