IT is not without a great measure of relief, as well as a little pride, with which we greeted the news yesterday that Malaysia and Indonesia decided to follow the lead of the Philippines and agreed to rescue and provide aid for the thousands of ethnic Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees currently adrift in the Andaman Sea.

The crisis, to recall, began building several weeks ago when the so-called “boat people” fleeing from ethnic violence and appalling living conditions in western Myanmar started to appear in Southeast Asian waters.

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