Myanmar’s navy on Tuesday, June 2, escorted a boatload of more than 700 migrants towards its western state of Rakhine, authorities said, 5 days after it was found adrift in the Bay of Bengal. Myanmar authorities said the passengers onboard were “Bengalis” and threatened to send them across the border. Myanmar describes its persecuted Rohingya Muslim community as “Bengalis”. Most of the 1.3 million Rohingya have no citizenship and are considered to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Around 3,500 migrants, mainly Rohingya from Myanmar or economic migrants from neighboring Bangladesh, have come ashore in Southeast Asia in recent weeks in an ongoing migrant crisis.
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