Struggle

     I recently read an article on cbsnews.com about a a group of people from Myanmar who fled from that country's dictatorship so that they would not be religiously persecuted. The group of  Rohingyas, an ethnic group of muslims from Malaysia, had first gone to Thailand where they worked illegally but were then found my Thai officials, beaten, and then discharged from the country and forced to leave on an engineless boat.

     The Indonesian Navy found the group of people almost three weeks later and helped treat the people. Myanmar's state-controlled newspaper issued a statement saying that the Rohingyas were not even apart of their hundreds of ethnic groups found inside their country.

     This story reminds me of Nectar in Sieve because these people wanted to be able to get away from their opprresion, just like what Kenny wanted for all of the people in the town, and start a new life.

"Myanmar Refugees Rescued By Indonesia." CBS News. 2 Feb. 2009. 4 Feb. 2009 .