Officials turn away starving migrants

Rohingya and Bangladeshis migrants abandoned at sea by human traffickers had nowhere to go as Malaysia turned away two crammed boats, and Thailand kept at bay a large vessel with hundreds of hungry people.

“What do you expect us to do?” Malaysian deputyhHome minister Wan Junaidi Jafaar said. “We have been very nice to the people who broke into our border. We have treated them humanely but they cannot be flooding our shores like this.

“We have to send the right message that they are not welcome here,” he said.