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When Kavi Vu was 3 year old, her family fled to the United States, following a decades-long war in their home country, Vietnam. After 30 years, she has returned to her motherland to "slow down" and experience her native country.
Human traffickers left dozens of Rohingya refugees, including children, stranded on a shoreline in westernmost Indonesia on Thursday, while six dead bodies were found nearby, local officials said.
Lee Hsien Yang, who has been granted political refugee status in the UK, said that Singaporean authorities have “weaponised” the country’s laws against critics and that he is just the most prominent example of a growing number of Singaporeans fleeing abroad to seek protection from their own government.
Though the country currently has no legislative or administrative framework for dealing with refugees, it hosts an estimated 190,000 refugees officially recognised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over half of whom are Rohingyas.
The younger Lee alleged that then prime minister Lee Hsien Loong was misusing his power to scuttle their efforts to demolish the family home, in line with their father’s wishes.
A boat carrying about 140 Rohingya refugees has been stranded miles off the coast of Indonesia for over a week, banned from settling there as Indonesian communities increasingly shun Rohingya refugees arriving by sea.
Lee Hsien Yang, a member of the family that led Singapore for decades after its independence from British rule, said on Tuesday that he had been granted political asylum in Britain and accused his nation of persecuting him throughout his brother’s tenure as prime minister.
LABUHAN HAJI, Indonesia (AP) — About 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, were on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile (0.60 kilometers) off the coast of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Tuesday, officials said, and local residents refused to allow them onto land.