In this photo taken Jan.1, 2013, Rohingya refugees sit in a boat as they are intercepted by Thai authorities off the sea in Phuket, southern Thailand. Officials said the 73 refugees from Myanmar's Rohingya minority found adrift off a Thai resort island w

Myanmar Rohingya Muslims

Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the United Nations, speaks during a press conference, after she tours Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Bangladesh Border Guard soldiers check survivors rescued from a boat capsize in Teknaf, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Officials said Wednesday that 23 people were rescued after an overcrowded boat capsized off the Bangladesh coast, but about 50 oth

June 10, 2012: An ethnic Rakhine man with homemade weapons walks in front of houses that were burnt during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe, Burma.

Members of Bangladesh Navy are seen with people rescued from a sunken boat in Bay of Bengal in Teknaf November 7, 2012. A boat carrying about 110 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from neighbouring Myanmar sank in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday as they we

Muslims Rohingya

A Muslim woman weeps as she and others arrive at Thechaung camp refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Burma, Oct. 28, 2012.

In this photo taken on Nov. 8, 2012, a Rakhine boy carries a baby at a relief camp in Mrauk-U, Rakhine state, western Myanmar. Mrauk-U itself has been spared the bloodshed between the Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya that has scarred other parts o

A boat carrying 73 Rohingya refugees is intercepted by Thai authorities off the sea in Phuket, southern Thailand, January 1, 2013.

An armed police officer guards as Muslim refugees stand behind him at Sittwe, Myanmar

This photo taken Jan.1, 2013, Rohingya refugees sit in a boat as they are intercepted by Thai authorities off the sea in Phuket, southern Thailand. Officials said the 73 refugees from Myanmar's Rohingya minority found adrift off a Thai resort island will be repatriated to their homeland. 

Noor Begum, 23, sits with her child Muhammad Umair in a house as she hides with other relatives in Teknaf October 31, 2012. Noor, who belongs to a group of Rohingya Muslims currently hiding with local villagers to avoid being arrested by border guards of

In this photo taken on Nov. 8, 2012, a Rakhine boy carries a baby at a relief camp in Mrauk-U, Rakhine state, western Burma.

Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marty Natalegawa speaks with Muslim Rohingya in Pauktaw refugee camp in Rakhine state, Myanmar on Jan. 7, 2013. (Courtesy of Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

A Myanmar policeman and soldier provide security

Hundreds of Muslim refugees follow Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, front row second left, being escorted by Myanmar Border Affair Minister Lt. General Thein Htay, front row second right, as he visits a refugee camp in Maungtaw, Rakhine State