Bangladesh stops scores of Rohingya seeking to sail to Indonesia

CNA
25 Nov 2023 

A Rohingya refugee wades ashore after an overcrowded boat carrying about 250 people arrived in Indonesia's west. (Photo: AFP/amanda jufrian)

TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Bangladesh police have clamped down on Rohingya refugees setting sail to Indonesia, officers said on Saturday (Nov 25), after hundreds from the persecuted Myanmar minority took the long and risky sea voyage to escape squalid camps.