UN agency probes origin of Rohingya refugees in Indonesia
By RAHMAT MIRZA
Associated Press
PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) — A United Nations agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week. At least 185 men, women and children disembarked from a rickety wooden boat Monday at dusk on Ujong Pie beach at a coastal village. The U.N.’s refugee agency said Tuesday that there will likely be more refugees. The agency says it will provide Rohingya language translators and counseling to determine if they were from the group of 190 Rohingya who were reported by the U.N. to be drifting in a small boat in the Andaman Sea for a month.
