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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/migrant_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Southeast Asian Nations Refuse Calls to Rescue Migrants' data-article-id='358'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12000'>Thousands of Bangladeshis and ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar remain stranded on boats off the coasts of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. </span> <span data-start-time='12000' data-end-time='18146'>However, governments in the area show little interest in rescuing them.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='18146' data-end-time='23438'>Human rights workers have talked by phone with a Thai-registered boat. </span> <span data-start-time='23438' data-end-time='29000'>The boat is believed to be in the waters of Thailand or Malaysia. </span> <span data-start-time='29000' data-end-time='33479'>They say 350 migrants are on board. </span> <span data-start-time='33479' data-end-time='39250'>Fifty women and 84 children are among those on the Thai boat. </span> <span data-start-time='39250' data-end-time='44021'>Those on the boat have made many requests for help. </span> <span data-start-time='44021' data-end-time='50167'>They say they are entering a fourth day without food or fresh water.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='50167' data-end-time='60271'>One young person on the boat told rights workers that 40 people on board have died, including 13 people on Tuesday. </span> <span data-start-time='60271' data-end-time='64771'>However, officials cannot confirm the information.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='64771' data-end-time='71375'>Chris Lewa is the founder of the Arakan Project, a Rohingya rights group. </span> <span data-start-time='71375' data-end-time='76938'>Mr. Lewa has talked on the phone many times with those on board the boat.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='76938' data-end-time='79229'>“We do not know where they are. </span> <span data-start-time='79229' data-end-time='89208'>So now the main thing is to identify where they could be, of course, on the Thai side or Malaysia side,” Mr. Lewa told VOA Wednesday.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='89208' data-end-time='95479'>He said cell phone contact had been made with another boat in a similar situation. </span> <span data-start-time='95479' data-end-time='98833'>Its location is also not known. </span> <span data-start-time='98833' data-end-time='104396'>“There are most likely many more [boats] in the same situation, abandoned. </span> <span data-start-time='104396' data-end-time='110167'>There should be an organized regional search-and-rescue operation taking place.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='110167' data-end-time='114958'>Many of the migrants on board are trying to get to Malaysia. </span> <span data-start-time='114958' data-end-time='120917'>However, Malaysia has refused calls to rescue the boats carrying immigrants. </span> <span data-start-time='120917' data-end-time='129729'>Malaysian officials said Tuesday if they find these boats, they would give food and other supplies to those on board. </span> <span data-start-time='129729' data-end-time='134604'>And if the boats were still seaworthy, they would turn them away. </span> <span data-start-time='134604' data-end-time='139979'>The Thai and Indonesian navies have similar plans in place.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='139979' data-end-time='152833'>The United Nations refugee agency said Wednesday it is “extremely alarmed” at reports saying Indonesia and Malaysia have pushed back boats carrying migrants. </span> <span data-start-time='152833' data-end-time='162625'>Volker Turk, a UN refugee agency official, said avoiding responsibility for the migrants puts lives at risk.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='162625' data-end-time='166104'>“The first priority is to save lives. </span> <span data-start-time='166104' data-end-time='176958'>Instead of competing to avoid responsibility, it is key for states to share the responsibility to disembark these people immediately,” Mr. Turk said.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='176958' data-end-time='185208'>Smugglers have used rubber factories in the southern part of Thailand as a way to enter Malaysia by land. </span> <span data-start-time='185208' data-end-time='194813'>The discovery of human remains this month led Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to order that the smuggling network be shut down.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='194813' data-end-time='203729'>The prime minister told reporters Tuesday that the military-led Thai government is considering opening refugee camps for Rohingya. </span> <span data-start-time='203729' data-end-time='209021'>He also said his main goal is “to take care of the Thai people. </span> <span data-start-time='209021' data-end-time='212521'>“But human rights cannot be denied either.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='212521' data-end-time='219813'>The smuggling network, mostly for ethnic Muslim Rohingya, has existed for many years. </span> <span data-start-time='219813' data-end-time='225604'>Rohingya minorities are fleeing violence and discrimination in Myanmar.</span> <span data-start-time='225604' data-end-time='230896'>But the recent Thai crackdown has affected the network’s operation.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='230896' data-end-time='241583'>Thai border police also told VOA on Wednesday they had discovered another large camp used by human smugglers near the Malaysian border. </span> <span data-start-time='241583' data-end-time='245813'>Smugglers used the camp to detain Rohingya migrants.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='245813' data-end-time='254375'>The Freeland Foundation says the human smuggling network in Thailand was a “multi-million dollar operation.” </span> <span data-start-time='254375' data-end-time='262354'>The migrants would need up to $3,000 from family and friends in Thailand to receive their freedom. </span> <span data-start-time='262354' data-end-time='270708'>Or they would be moved to the Malaysian border, where they were sold to Malaysian farmers for $1,000 each.</span> <span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='0'></span> <span data-start-time='270708' data-end-time='284625'>With many of these camps now closed, observers say that between 8,000 and 10,000 migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh may now be at sea on overcrowded wooden boats.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='284625' data-end-time='293563'>Despite all of the risks, thousands of poor Bangladeshis and repressed Rohingya continue to want to migrate.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='293563' data-end-time='303458'>In the first three months of 2015, some 25,000 people are believed to have taken boats from Bangladesh and Myanmar. </span> <span data-start-time='303458' data-end-time='308417'>That is two times the number in the same period last year.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='308417' data-end-time='315125'>Thailand is planning an international conference on the situation in Bangkok on May 29.</span> <span data-start-time='315125' data-end-time='320583'>Thai officials say 15 affected countries plan to attend.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='320583' data-end-time='322688'>I’m Jonathan Evans.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/to_move_something_from_one_country_into_another_illegally.m4a'><span>to move something from one country into another illegally</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/place_or_position.m4a'><span>place or position</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/to_leave_a_place.m4a'><span>to leave a place</span></div></div></div><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=2125 data-hint-location='95479' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/what_does_location_mean.m4a'>What does location mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='place or position'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/a_serious_attempt.m4a'><span>a 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class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/trade.m4a'><span>trade</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/television.m4a'><span>television</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/drug.m4a'><span>drug</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/smuggling.m4a'><span>smuggling</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=2128 data-hint-location='139979' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/which_group_is_alarmed_that_indonesia_and_malaysia_are_pushing_back_the_boats_carrying_migrants.m4a'>Which group is alarmed that Indonesia and Malaysia are pushing back the boats carrying migrants?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='United Nations'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/united_nations.m4a'><span>United Nations</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/fema.m4a'><span>FEMA</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/peta.m4a'><span>PETA</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/the_red_cross.m4a'><span>the Red Cross</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=2129 data-hint-location='110167' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/where_are_most_of_the_migrants_trying_to_go.m4a'>Where are most of the migrants trying to go?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Malaysia'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/america.m4a'><span>America</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/malaysia.m4a'><span>Malaysia</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/thailand.m4a'><span>Thailand</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/singapore.m4a'><span>Singapore</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=2130 data-hint-location='152833' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/avoiding_responsibility_for_the_migrants_is_putting__blank__at_risk.m4a'>Avoiding responsibility for the migrants is putting <span class='blank'>lives</span> at risk.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='lives'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/animals.m4a'><span>animals</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/boats.m4a'><span>boats</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/lives.m4a'><span>lives</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/the_world.m4a'><span>the world</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=2131 data-hint-location='79229' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/human_rights_workers_are_trying_to__blank__the_migrants.m4a'>Human rights workers are trying to <span class='blank'>locate</span> the migrants.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='locate'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/release.m4a'><span>release</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/feed.m4a'><span>feed</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/educate.m4a'><span>educate</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/locate.m4a'><span>locate</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=2132 data-hint-location='12000' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/128/_blank__show_little_interest_in_rescuing_the_migrants.m4a'><span class='blank'>governments</span> show little interest in rescuing the migrants.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='governments'><div class='choice' 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