Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead, missing in shipwrecks in 2025: UN

UN reports nearly 900 Rohingya refugees perished or vanished at sea in 2025, marking one of the deadliest years for the persecuted minority fleeing by boat. | Contesto: cronaca

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Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported dead or missing in the treacherous waters of the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in 2025, a United Nations agency confirmed today. The stark figure was delivered by UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch during a press briefing in Geneva, highlighting a catastrophic year for the persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar who risk everything on overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels in search of safety. The toll represents one of the highest annual death counts recorded in recent years for Rohingya attempting the perilous maritime exodus from Bangladesh and Myanmar. Each digit in the grim statistic underscores a journey that typically begins in the sprawling refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where over a million Rohingya live in desperate conditions after fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine State. With no legal pathways for resettlement and dwindling hope for repatriation, many see the boat journey—often organized by ruthless traffickers—as their only option. The Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal have long been a watery graveyard for Rohingya refugees. The voyages, which can last for weeks, are undertaken on rickety fishing boats with scant supplies of food and water. Passengers are frequently subjected to abuse by smugglers, while engines fail and vessels drift helplessly. Storms and high seas capsize many boats, leaving survivors adrift without rescue. The UN's count of the dead and missing is likely an underestimate, as many shipwrecks go unreported and bodies are never recovered. This dramatic loss of life in 2025 signals a severe escalation of the crisis and a failure of regional and international response mechanisms. Despite repeated appeals from humanitarian organizations, coordinated search and rescue operations by coastal states remain inadequate. The principle of non-refoulement—the cornerstone of refugee law that prohibits returning people to places where they face danger—is often ignored, with boats being pushed back from shores. The soaring death toll exposes the deadly consequences of policy paralysis and closed borders in Southeast Asia. The tragedy also casts a harsh light on the unresolved root causes in...

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