U.S. Department of State UNCLASSIFIED [email protected] http://hiu.state.gov Southeast Asia: Rohingya Maritime Migration Update (March-October 2013) HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT

NEPAL Thimphu Kathmandu BHUTAN CHINA Taiwan BANGLADESH Dhaka Hong Kong S.A.R. Area INDIA CHINA shown BURMA Hanoi Cox’s Bazar Sittwe Pauktaw May 13 LAOS VIETNAM Philippine A boat carrying at least Rakhine 150 Rohingya capsized Sea near Pauktaw township Rangoon Vientiane (Yangon) in Rakhine State. The Sept. 11 Manila group was seeking to THAILAND Some 250 Rohingya bound ee low-lying areas for Malaysia were rescued in PHILIPPINES PACIFIC OCEAN ahead of Cyclone Bangkok southern Thailand. Local Mahasen. authorities claimed the Andaman CAMBODIA ANDAMAN group disembarked due to a PALAU ISLANDS Sea storm and because of Bay of Phnom Koror INDIA Penh dwindling food supplies. The Bengal Gulf of Sulu Thailand group was allegedly adrift for 15 days after leaving Burma Sea on August 26. July 28 NICOBAR 0 250 500 km Indonesian shermen rescued 68 ISLANDS Rohingya – including a pregnant INDIA South China Sea 0 250 500 mi woman and two babies – from a Satun BRUNEI Celebes boat stranded o the coast near Bandar Seri Sea Banda Aceh, northern Sumatra. S July 1 tr Begawan The passengers told Aceh o cials ai A ship of about 100 asylum seekers, t o MALAYSIA they were heading to f including 71 Rohingya men, women, M Kuala Lumpur al after they were diverted from S ac and children, washed ashore in ca Singapore Malaysia. SINGAPORE B ORNEO Viqueque, Timor-Leste after their U ship’s engine failed. Timor-Leste M o cials detained the group and later SULAWESI A transferred them to Indonesian Reported Rohingya boat landings* T waters on July 11. The group spent R several days on two remote (Mar. 23-Oct. 30, 2013) A Banda Indonesian islands before Indonesian authorities returned the group to Circle size 250 March 23 Sea Sea indicates Sulawesi, Indonesia. Circle Primary number Dili Viqueque 100 color migration of people Sukabumi Arafura Sea indicates ow J AVA TIMOR-LESTE aboard 50 landing boat date October 11 10 Police in Sukabumi arrested four individuals October 30 Timor leading a people-smuggling ring that was Sea *The depicted incidents are not an exhaustive list, but are attempting to smuggle 88 Rohingya asylum those that have been documented by media sources in 2013. AUSTRALIA seekers to Australia from western Java, Indonesia. AUSTRALIA

Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative Source: Open source press reporting November 19, 2013 - U929 STATE (HIU) UNCLASSIFIED