A migrant Rohingya woman from Myanmar breaks down while holding her son at the new confinement area in the fishing town of Kuala Langsa in Aceh province on May 16 where hundreds of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh mostly Rohingyas are taking shelter after they were rescued by Indonesian fishermen. Washington raised the pressure on Southeast Asia to open its ports to boatpeople May 16 after migrants described a terrifying battle for survival between Rohingya and Bangladeshi passengers as their shunned vessel sank off Indonesia. AFP PHOTO
LANGSA, Indonesia: Malaysia's prime minister said on Saturday he would seek help from Myanmar to address the unfolding "humanitarian catastrophe" involving a wave of boatpeople flooding to Southeast Asia, thousands of whom are ethnic Rohingya fleeing oppression in the mainly Buddhist country.