Charges that illegal immigrants from Burma were dumped at sea in boats with no food and no engines will be investigated, the Thai government reported. Refugees International and the Arakan Project, which is based in Bangkok, said as many as 1,000 people may have been forced back to sea after the Thai Navy intercepted their boats. The migrants were described as both Rohingya refugees from Burma and migrants from Bangladesh hoping to get to Malaysia to find work.

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