YANGON, Myanmar – According to the United Nations refugee agency, 569 Rohingya people died or went missing at sea last year, the highest number since 2014, while embarking on dangerous boat journeys to Southeast Asia.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), nearly 4,500 Rohingya people took boats across the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in 2023 to flee crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh or p