Rohingyas: 180 refugees supposedly drowned as boat vanishes in the Andaman Sea

Rohingyas: According to the Guardian, at least 180 Rohingya refugees were believed to be dead after their boat to Malaysia vanished in the Andaman Sea. The United Nations voiced its concern about a boat carrying 180 refugees that had sunk on its way to Malaysia on December 2 in a statement released on Sunday. The boat had left the camps in the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar.

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Little hope of them of being alive

According to the report's citation of relatives of those onboard, they had lost touch with the boat on December 8 and "had little hope left that any were still alive."

Mohammad Noman, a Rohingya refugee in Cox's Bazar, revealed to the journal that he had not spoken to the boatman since November 8. His sister and her two daughters boarded the boat with the hope of meeting up with her husband in Malaysia.

“Since the boat left Bangladesh on December 2, every day we called up the boat two or three times on the boatman’s satellite phone to find out if my sister and her two daughters were all right,” he claimed.
“Since December 8, I have failed to get access to that phone.”

Noman continued, “none of them has succeeded to reach the phone after 8 December,” adding that he knew several other people in Cox's Bazar whose families were also on the boat.

If the boat's sinking is confirmed, the research claims that 2022 will rank among the bloodiest years for migrants fleeing Bangladeshi refugee camps, with 350 deaths—one of the highest tolls in recent memory.

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Captain of a different boat recounts seeing the boat carrying 180 refugees

Kefayatullah, the captain of a different boat that got into problems earlier this month and was rescued by Sri Lankan coast guards, recounted seeing the boat carrying 180 refugees become engulfed in strong waves during a stormy night sometime in the second week of December.
“It was around 2am when a strong wind began blowing and big waves surfaced on the sea. Jamal’s [the captain] boat began swaying wildly, we could gauge from a flashlight they were pointing at us. After some time, we could not see the flashlight anymore. We believe the boat drowned then,” Kefayatullah claimed.

Noman told the media how his family was devastated when they learned that the boat carrying his sister and her two daughters had likely sunk.

“My mother has not eaten food for two days now. She is crying continually and fainting time and again,” he said.

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