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114 Beautiful Rohingyas
Imagine yourself stranded in the middle of nowhere under des-
perate conditions with no friends or relatives from your life in your
home country. Even hard to imagine in one's worst nightmare!
However, with no rights of any kind and, more importantly, no
hope for future in their own homeland, they, as a last resort, clamber
on to a rickety boat, taking the risk of death.
With their vessels marooned out on the high seas by human traf-
fickers and various navies cracking down on them, the ordeal they've
gone through is unparalleled by any means. Their boats, "floating cof-
fins" as they are called, are a reference to their horrendous situation.
According to the UN, the Rohingya Muslims are one of the "most
persecuted minorities" in the world. Now the situation has turned
