The poverty-stricken

by Ted Rudow III, MA (Tedr77 [at] aol.com)

Fri, May 15, 2015 1:32PM

More than 900 migrants from Bangladesh and Burma have reportedly been rescued from a sinking boat off the coast of Indonesia while thousands remain adrift in the region. Burma’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, who are not considered citizens in Burma and are effectively stateless.

Several thousand refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar - fleeing either poverty or persecution - are believed to be adrift on boats in the Andaman Sea in what has become a spiralling humanitarian crisis, reported the Associated Press news agency. In recent days, about 2,000 landed in Malaysia and Indonesia, but both countries then said they could not accept any more.

War is a mere symptom. Economic bankruptcy and distress is a symptom. Political confusion is a symptom. The whole mess is merely the exterior sign of the disease within. The poverty-stricken and those afflicted and burdened by war, sickness and disease.

Ted Rudow III, MA

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