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.
04:57Are you difficult to use, while it is not designed for танárias,
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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