Boat Left With Over 6,000 Starving Refugees No Country Wants To Take In Drift At Sea

Rohingya refugees are pictured on a boat off the southern Thai island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015.

Am speechless o! No country wants to take in this boat. I hope we don't have a modern Moby dick kind of story o!
 Aid groups say at least 6,000 refugees -- and perhaps many times that number -- have been drifting for days and months in the waters between Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. They were abandoned with little food and water by human traffickers after a regional crackdown on smuggling networks. Most are Rohingya Muslims who are stateless in Myanmar and Bangladeshis trying to escape poverty. See more frustrating photos after the cut...

 Rohingya migrants sit on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe, May 14, 2015.

Only a few boats have been able to reach safe shore. On Thursday, Thailand and Malaysia turned away boats crammed with starving refugees as officials washed their hands of the crisis. "We have to send the right message that they are not welcome here," Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Jafaar told The Associated Press, adding: "What do you expect us to do?" Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha said it wasn't fair for his country to shoulder the burden of accepting refugees. "No one wants them," he said.

Rohingya migrants swim to collect food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter after they jumped off a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe, May 14, 2015.

Rohingya refugees pass food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter to others aboard a boat on May 14, 2015.

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