The International Organisation for Migration estimates that 88,000 people have boarded smugglers boats and taken to the high seas from Bangladesh and western Burma in the 15 months between January 2014 and March 2015.
They are Rohingya Muslims, members of a stateless minority of one million people in Burma, and Bangladeshis fleeing poverty.
On this special episode of DVB Debate the panel discusses Burma’s role in the regional migrant crisis.
