The Thai armed forces have been accused of towing hundreds of migrants out to sea last month and leaving them to their fate with inadequate food and water and only paddles as a means to reach land.
The migrants allegedly arrived off Thailand's Andaman coast after setting sail from Bangladesh. Most of them are from the Rohingya ethnic minority, tens of thousands of whom have fled to Bangladesh to escape repression and economic hardship in their homeland in western Burma.
The Thai authorities are accused of towing them back out to sea on barges without engines and abandoning them. Reports in the regional news media say that hundreds have died and that many bodies have been found trapped in mangrove forests around India's Andaman Islands. Hundreds more people, starving and dehydrated, have been rescued by Indian and Indonesian authorities after days adrift.
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