Migrant boat crisis

Thousands of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar have reportedly been rescued from sinking boats off the coast of Indonesia while thousands remain adrift in the region. Several thousand refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar - fleeing either poverty or persecution - are believed to be adrift on boats in the Andaman Sea in what has become a spiralling humanitarian crisis. In recent days, about 2,000 landed in Malaysia and Indonesia, but both countries then said they could not accept any more. But amid international pressure, these countries have finally decided to give the boat people temporary shelter.

The governments of the respective countries should take immediate measures to solve this humanitarian crisis as soon as possible.