Rohingya crisis
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In the past week, thousands of Rohingya have become subjects of an unseemly game of regional "ping-pong," their boats pushed back by governments not keen on accommodating any more asylum seekers. The spur of the crisis is in the remote, western part of that country, also known as Myanmar, where the majority of the roughly 1.3 million Rohingya live. With no Asian country wanting to accept them, they are left afloat at sea without any food and will ultimately die. The boats with these migrants are now being referred to as 'floating coffins'
