Photos: Rohingya migrants flee Myanmar
About 240 Bangladeshis wait at a temporary camp in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia. After spending months on a migrant boat, where they were beaten and denied food, many will soon be sent back home.
(Jonathan Kaiman / Los Angeles Times)Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are adrift at sea, turned away by three countries.
Abdul Raman, 27, is an ethnic Rohingya truck driver from Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Raman decided to flee Myanmar more than a year and a half ago after seeing his parents and sister hacked to death by Buddhist mobs.
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A Rohingya child from Myanmar is treated at an Indonesian hospital May 19 after being rescued by fishermen.
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A rescued Bangladeshi migrant prays May 19 while Indonesian personnel fumigate a warehouse converted into sleeping quarters for migrants at a fishing port in Langsa.
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A Rohingya girl rests at a temporary shelter May 19 in Kuala Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia.
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A Rohingya migrant is seen inside a temporary shelter May 18 in Kuala Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia.
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Rehena Begum, a Rohingya mother from Myanmar, goes through the Indonesian police identification process May 18 after being rescued by fishermen.
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Syohid 2, a Rohingya migrant child, is held by his mother May 18 as his picture is taken for identification at a temporary shelter in Indonesia.
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Hasai, 5, a Rohingya migrant child, poses May 18 for identification purposes at a temporary shelter in Kuala Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia.
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Rohingya migrants pass food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter to others aboard a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015. A boat crammed with scores of Rohingya migrants - including many young children - was found drifting in Thai waters on May 14, with passengers saying several people had died over the last few days.
(Christophe Archambault / AFP/Getty Images)A Rohingya migrant eats food dropped by a Thai army helicopter after he jumped to collect the supplies at sea from a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman sea on May 14, 2015. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP/Getty Images)
Rohingya migrants sit on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015.
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Rohingya migrants on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015.
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Rohingya migrants on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015.
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Rohingya migrants collect food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter after jumping from a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015.
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Rohingya migrants bring back food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter after jumping to collect them at sea from a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015.
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Rohingya migrants collect food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter and from a boat in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015.
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