Editor’s note: Pseudonyms are used for refugees to protect their identities.

COMMENT | On April 9, a Malaysia-bound trawler carrying an estimated 250-280 passengers - men, women, and children who were Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals - sank in the Andaman Sea due to harsh winds and overcrowding.

Only nine were rescued, found floating on drums and logs.

For the uninitiated, these boat arrivals are not a surprise. Most serving this vulnerable and forgotten community anticipate them, with the awareness that the plight of the Rohingya is largely forgotten and dismissed.

Even for an organisation like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), better known as Doctors Without Borders, its protracted plight often has to contend with other emerging crises elsewhere - Sudan, Gaza, and beyond.

But who are we to...