Apartheid State White House: I am appalled at reports that Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have been pushing boats full of vulnerable migrants back out to sea, which will inevitably lead to many avoidable deaths, United Nations’ human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein told *The New York Times*. The focus should be on saving lives, not further endangering them. * Myanmar: An Apartheid State * White House spokesman Eric Schultz also expressed the concerns over those fleeing because of dire humanitarian and economic situations they face at home out of fear of ethnic and religious violence, according to MSNBC. President Obama plans to maintain some sanctions on Myanmar, though the U.S. would not cease engaging with the country, he said in a routine note to Congress Friday. An estimated 6,000 to 20,000 migrants are adrift in overcrowded boats, according to *NPR. *Some have even been aboard the vessels for as long as three months because some countries have reportedly turned them away. Rohingya people are considered to be one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, according to *Al Jazeera*. In Myanmar, they have been denied citizenship under the law for more than 30 years and subjected to what the *New York Times* described in 2014 as quasi-concentration camps. We urge the countries of the region to work together to save lives at sea, he remarked the day before. This is an emergency that we believe needs to be addressed with appropriate speed and resolve through a regionally coordinated effort to save the lives of the thousands of vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers, U.S. State Department Acting Deputy Spokesperson Jeff Rathke said in a press briefing Friday.
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