More than 600 trafficking victims from Burma and Bangladesh have been rescued in the Bay of Bengal, a Bangladeshi navy spokesman in Dhaka said on Tuesday.<br /><br />Many of those on board are thought to be Rohingya Muslims.<br /><br />Large populations of stateless Rohingyas remain in displacement camps in Burma's western Arakan State, and neighbouring Bangladesh.<br /><br />NGO the Arakan Project says traffickers pose a serious risk to the persecuted minority.
