Myanmar's navy

Myanmar's navy has discovered over a hundred migrants stranded for weeks on a southern island, state media said on July 14, in the wake of a regional boat crisis earlier this year.

Myanmar said on June 4 that persecution of its Rohingya Muslim population was not the cause of Southeast Asia's migrant crisis, a day after the United States called on the country to give full rights to the minority to help end the exodus.

Myanmar brought ashore more than 700 "boat people" it had kept at sea for days aboard a seized vessel, as the United States on June 3 called on the country to help solve a migrant crisis by recognising the rights of its Muslim Rohingya minority. 

Myanmar's navy is escorting a boat crammed with 727 stranded migrants to a "safe" location where officials will verify their identities before taking any further action, the country's information minister said on June 2.

Myanmar's navy has carried out its first rescue of a migrant boat, bringing 208 people to shore, an official told AFP May 22, as it faced mounting international pressure to tackle a regional migration crisis.