In interviews with Reuters, seven Rohingya survivors from a rescued boat recall two harrowing months of misery and death at sea by A.S.M Suza Uddin poppymcp
Shahab Uddin, 20, a Rohingya refugee poses for a picture in the transit camp in southern Bangladesh after surviving two months at sea on a wooden trawler, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, April 30, 2020. Picture taken April 30, 2020. /Handout via REUTERSThe 20-year-old was among almost 400 survivors pulled from the water, starving, emaciated and traumatized after the boat failed to reach Malaysia and spent weeks adrift before returning to Bangladesh in mid-April.
“I thought I would not come back home alive,” said Uddin. “I missed my family, especially my parents.” Most fled an army crackdown in 2017 that the United Nations says was carried out with genocidal intent. Myanmar denies genocide and says it was responding to insurgent attacks.Although the Rohingya people trace their ancestry in Rakhine back centuries, Myanmar says they are illegal immigrants from South Asia.
“I thought going to Malaysia by whatever way would at least save me. Many have made it to Malaysia and are better off.”
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