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Rohingya issue: Will the karma hit back Bangladeshi nationals?

Bangladeshi government said in several occasions and through numerous press conferences that it had helped the Rohingya refugees more than enough. How much is enough; I ask myself. Here is an intriguing story I came across while researching what these people go though - almost 5 years ago, crooked agents in Cox’s Bazar took money from Ali Ashraf and a few other Rohingya refugees to place them in a boat destined towards Thailand and Malaysia. After passing some horrific events, Thai Navy got hold of that boat and took Ali Ashraf ashore. They interrogated and tortured him and some others for two straight days and then placed them back to the boat. Thai Navy took the engine of the boat before it reached high seas and left it to flow away without supply of food and water. After a while, they were rescued by the Indian Navy as the boat floated aimlessly towards Andaman-Nicobar Islands. By the time of rescue, all the Rohingyas on the boat were food deprived, immensely dehydrated and o...