As anarchy gripped the Sri Lankan city of Colombo in May, Meenu Mekala and Nirosh Ravindra gambled their family's life savings on a two-week, nearly 3,000-mile voyage aboard a rusting trawler with their two young sons. The decision ended in ruin.

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