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A senior researcher from Amnesty International has warned that “hopelessness” is driving a surge in dangerous boat migration attempts by Rohingya refugees across the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. With conditions worsening in overcrowded camps and limited prospects for resettlement, many Rohingya are risking their lives in perilous sea journeys in search of safety and dignity.

According to Amnesty, years of neglect, restricted movement, and lack of education and employment opportunities have left many refugees feeling trapped. The organization says this deep sense of despair is pushing entire families to embark on journeys aboard unsafe boats, often leading to tragic outcomes.

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00:00...that they were hosting like five more people that had come over because they...
00:29...so according to information I received yesterday, a boat left Bangladesh or the area around Bangladesh in late October.
00:37That boat then traveled through the waters towards Thailand and Malaysia through the Andaman Sea...
00:42...and then they split at some point into smaller boats to go to different destinations.
00:47The reason that happens is the big boat is not going to...
00:51...sort of the mother ship boat is not going to land or try to approach any of these countries because it's too detectable.
00:57This is being filmed but it's not going to be used.
01:00Oh, okay.
01:01So when you were at the...
01:02So what happened or what seems to have happened is in that transfer or somewhere along the lines of that transfer...
01:09...one of the boats either capsized or people fell off the boat.
01:13And now the Malaysian and Thai authorities have both recovered bodies and the death toll is around 21 according to reports.
01:22...hit with bombs, airstrikes.
01:24They're fleeing over into Bangladesh but the government of Bangladesh, you know, to take things a little...
01:31Well, from the Rohingya that I've spoken with over the past year or so is there's a general sense of hopelessness.
01:39There's a hopelessness about going back to Myanmar where they have to live either under the Myanmar military...
01:46...or the Arakan army which they do not feel will respect their human rights.
01:50And there's a hopelessness about the situation in Bangladesh where it's becoming just harder to live because of...
01:56...because of these aid cuts and because frankly the Bangladesh government does not make any room...
02:02...really for Rohingya to work, to get an education, to move around.
02:07So they're kind of increasingly suffocated within these camps.
02:11I guess the main difference is there's more people there.
02:14So in 2020...
02:17I spoke to Rohingya youth who told me that some of their friends have left on these boats...
02:23...to Malaysia, to Thailand because they lost access to school.
02:27Their parents are feeling helpless.
02:30And I think we're going to see much more of this in the coming months as these aid cuts start to bite.
02:35Some of the funding has been recovered, which is good.
02:38And we would encourage the funding to be restored as much as possible.
02:41But if you don't have anywhere, if you don't have enough to eat, you don't have a place to stay...
02:45...and your kids can't go to school, you're going to leave.
02:49Any Rohingyas still do want to go home.
02:51It's just like what home is left? There's not really...
02:54People always leave Myanmar or Bangladesh.
02:57Rohingya have long left Myanmar and Bangladesh because the situation has never been good.
03:03They've faced persecution, lack of livelihood, lack of education.
03:07So this is not necessarily a new trend, but what's happening now is it's getting worse in both places.
03:13In Myanmar, where Rohingya feel they have no future under the Arakan army.
03:18And in Bangladesh, where it's just becoming harder to live there.
03:22And so that gives you an indication of why they would leave, but also why they would take that risk.
03:28Which, as we saw from this incident, is quite dangerous.
03:32I mean, you have to sail for a week to ten days on boats.
03:37These aren't fancy boats. These aren't incredibly sound vessels.
03:41So they're risking their lives just for their future.
03:45So this time of year is sort of typically referred to euphemistically as sailing season.
03:52And it's sort of, as the rainy season goes down, the monsoon season goes down in intensity,
03:58the conditions, the weather conditions are better for taking these trips.
04:03That doesn't mean they're still safe. You know, it's still quite dangerous, as we can see here.
04:08And the weather, as we've seen in the region, can change at the drop of a hat.
04:12So I think we will definitely start seeing some more of these incidents.
04:17And that's why we were, there's no real education system to speak of in that armed conflict.
04:24But at the heart of it goes back to what happened in Myanmar.
04:27The people who committed crimes against the Rohingya, the reason they fled to Bangladesh,
04:31the reason people have fled from Bangladesh into other countries in the region for years,
04:36is because the Rohingya's rights at home in Myanmar are not respected.
04:40And the people who have committed crimes against them have not been held to account.
04:43That's really at the root cause of all of this.
04:46And until that happens, until that is addressed, this crisis is never going to end.
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05:00it's already assembled for a glacier.
05:01Of course, such a boat can't be learnt by people to speak of限 VICỗi.
05:04MAN!
05:05MAN!
05:06MAN!
05:07MAN!
05:08MAN!
05:09Mm hmm.
05:11Mm hmm.
05:15Okay, ma'am.
05:17Assalamualaikum.
05:21Okay, thank you very much.
05:26Assalamualaikum.
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