Myanmar lands 700 boat people, says most belong to Bangladesh

Myanmar brought ashore more than 700 boat people it had blocked at sea for days, as the United States on Wednesday called on the country to solve a migrant crisis by recognising the rights of its Muslim Rohingya minority.

But Myanmar authorities said they believed most of the migrants were from neighboring Bangladesh – and they took them away in buses towards the border. The Rohingya were held separately at their landing point, Reuters news agency reported.

In this “Southeast Asia migrant cris…
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