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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Indonesia to repatriate Myanmar 'economic migrants' AFP - Saturday, January 31 SABANG, Indonesia (AFP) - - Indonesia said Friday it will repatriate 174 "economic migrants" who fled Myanmar claiming persecution, as new accounts emerged of their harrowing sea journey and alleged abuse by the Thai navy. The ethnic Rohingya Muslims, who rights groups say fled Myanmar only to be beaten and abandoned at sea by the Thai military, would be repatriated to Myanmar despite the concerns of rights groups, the foreign ministry said. One of the migrants who spoke to AFP Friday at a hospital in Sabang, northern Sumatra, begged not to be sent back to Myanmar or Thailand. "For three days and three nights we were beaten by Thai navy with big guns and wooden sticks. They hit us all over our bodies," said Mohammad Hasan, 22, who has tuberculosis. "We were put into four boats with no engines, no rice, no food, no water" and towed out to sea by a Thai navy ship for one day and night, he added, confirming accounts by other Rohingya migrants in Indonesia and India. "In the morning they cut the rope and shot in the air randomly. I was very afraid. The people on the boats were crying and screaming. The Thai navy left us after that." He said he faced jail and his family would be punished if he was sent back to mainly Buddhist Myanmar, where the ruling junta denies the existence of the Rohingya minority. "I pray to Allah that the Indonesian government will not send me back to Myanmar. If I go back I'll be put in jail and later they'll shoot me and my family," he said. The 174 Rohingya and 19 Bangladeshis being kept at an Indonesian naval base landed in Weh Island off northern Sumatra on January 7. They are believed to be survivors from a group of about 1,000 mainly Rohingya asylum seekers who were set adrift by the Thai military after landing on Thai territory. Thailand denies the allegations. Nearly 650 have been rescued off India and Indonesia but hundreds remain unaccounted for. Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said the migrants had "economic motives" for leaving Myanmar and refused to comment on their alleged abuse by Thai security forces. "We've read about the ill-treatment by Thailand in the media. But what we seek is the result of our own investigations. Don't be quick to jump to conclusions and say there are human rights violations," he told reporters. Indonesia has barred journalists and the UN refugee agency from interviewing the migrants inside the naval base, where they could be seen Friday conducting prayers and relaxing. Faizasyah dismissed suggestions Jakarta was sidestepping the human rights question to avoid having to take care of the migrants as refugees under international law. "We are not covering up for anybody," he said. The International Organisation for Migration has been given access to the migrants but the inter-governmental agency has refused to comment to the media. The Red Cross has also had access to the base at Sabang. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has been denied access, said that given the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar, the migrants were probably in need of international protection and should not be repatriated. Amnesty International called Friday for Thailand to "stop forcibly expelling Rohingyas and provide them with immediate humanitarian assistance". In an open letter to regional governments, it said "hundreds of Rohingyas are missing or have died after the Thai security forces set them adrift in unseaworthy boats with little or no food and water". "Amnesty International urges the governments of India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand... to ensure that no one who would face serious human rights violations in any country be returned there," it said. 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