Myanmar Asylum Seeker Crisis Needs a Humane and Regional Solution

THE I DIPLOMATS
By Perry Q. Wood
April 01, 2024

 A more coordinated response would open more formal channels for asylum seekers to seek refuge in other countries.

In this image from a video, Rohingya refugees walk at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Feb. 2, 2021.

Credit: AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File

More deaths at sea, another capsized boat and more tragedy. This time it is Rohingya fleeing either persecution in Myanmar or unlivable conditions in makeshift camps outside the country. Seventy deaths and counting from the latest incident alone.