Malaysia has arrested more than a dozen members of an alleged people smuggling syndicate after intercepting a ship carrying 127 Sri Lankan migrants believed to be bound for Australia and New Zealand, including three Indonesians and four Malaysians. In 2015 some boats carrying Rohingyas, a stateless Muslim minority from mostly Buddhist Myanmar, arrived in Malaysia after Thai authorities clamped down on regional trafficking networks, preventing them from coming ashore in Thailand. A Rohingya boat arrival in northwest Malaysia last month was the first for some time and came as fears mounted that more might take to the high seas after a military crackdown in Myanmar sent many members of the minority fleeing their homeland.