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What we know about Rohingya refugee crisis at sea | Muslim Rohingya flee persecution in Myanmar

The Muslim Rohingya originally fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in 2017, with around a million now estimated to be living in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh. Here's what we know about the Rohingya's plight, why they embark on such perilous journeys and how governments are responding.

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Human traffickers are believed to have organised at least half a dozen vessels in recent months from Myanmar or Bangladesh, with all 180 people aboard one of them believed to have died while spending weeks at sea trying to reach a safe third country. Here's what we know about the Rohingya's plight, why they embark on such perilous journeys and how governments are responding.