Rohingya footballer among 500 feared dead in Myanmar shipwrecks

An estimated 500 Rohingya refugees are feared dead after two boats capsized off Myanmar's coast in late June; thousands more face exploitation and abuse by trafficking networks annually.

Off the coast of Myanmar in late June, two overcrowded vessels carrying Rohingya refugees capsized, and roughly 500 people — among them a 24-year-old footballer named Siraz Ullah who had recorded a farewell prayer to his family before boarding — are feared lost to the sea. Their journey was not born of wanderlust but of exhaustion: decades of statelessness, military violence, and camp confinement had narrowed the horizon until a dangerous crossing felt like the only remaining door. This disaster is not an isolated tragedy but a recurring consequence of a world that has systematically refused t

Rohingya footballer among 500 feared dead in Myanmar shipwrecks

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