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epa04742607 Rohingya refugees line up for breakfast in the sport stadium of Lhok Sukon, North Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, 11 May 2015. Indonesia on 10 May 2015 rescued more than 500 Myanmar Rohingya found drifting in a boat off the North Aceh coast. Many Rohingya Muslims, a stateless minority in predominately Buddhist Myanmar, often escape by travelling to Malaysia and Indonesia through Thailand by boats and cars that are run by smugglers, who hold them in captivity until ransom is paid by their family back home. EPA/ZIKRI MAULANA