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View all search resultsExperts have urged better government communication and diplomatic efforts to cool simmering tensions among local communities over the recent arrival in Aceh of Rohingya refugees, a predominantly Muslim minority ethnic group fleeing state-sanctioned discrimination in Myanmar.
Two people on the boat had died and another 11, including a pregnant woman, had been evacuated to the local hospital, Muhammad Jabal, the head of fishing community at Labuhan Haji port in South Aceh, told Reuters on Wednesday.
UNHCR is coordinating with its local partners and authorities to gather more details on the group - who appeared to be made up of women and children - and to organise aid, senior communications assistant Yanuar Farhanditya told Reuters,
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