Following the sinking of a ship carrying 700 refugees off the coast of Lampedusa in mid-April, the world's focus has shifted to a crisis of even greater magnitude. Up to 8,000 migrants have been stranded in six boats in the Andaman Sea, off the coasts of Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, since early May. Both countries stated that they were working on the basis of international financial and operational assistance, and that those who were taken in would be resettled or repatriated within a year. The majority of the migrants are Rohingya Muslims from the Burmese state of Rakhine and the Bangladesh-Myanmar borderlands. An estimated 3,600 migrants have disembarked after Indonesia and Malaysia offered temporary asylum....
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