Migrants face uncertainty but they’re better off on land than adrift at sea


SIK: For the 1,107 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants behind bars at the Immigration Detention Centre in Belantik after being abandoned by a trafficking syndicate in Langkawi, their fate now hangs in the balance.

The faces of those at the centre show the fatigue and anxiety, whose journey across the seas may now have been in vain.

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