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KUALA LUMPUR: Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on a Malaysian highway as hundreds fled an immigration detention centre where a riot broke out early on Wednesday, officials said.
Video chat only hope for divided Rohingya couple AFP, KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh The human traffickers told Julekha Begum that it would take less than a week to smuggle her to Malaysia to meet the husband she barely knows. Instead, she spent two months marooned at sea in the hold of a fishing boat with 500 others. In that time, she said traffickers beat her sister to death and threw countless bodies into the sea. Eventually she was forced to return to a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh alongside about 1 million other members of the stateless Rohingya group. The video-call app they used to get...
Author: AFP|Update: 15.12.2020 07:33 Rohingya refugee Julekha Begum is stuck in a camp in Bangladesh; her husband, who she married via video call, lives in Malaysia / © AFP The human traffickers told Julekha Begum it would take less than a week to smuggle her to Malaysia to meet the husband she barely knows. Instead she spent two months marooned at sea in the hold of a fishing boat with 500 others. In that time, she said traffickers beat her sister to death and threw countless bodies into the sea. Eventually she was forced to return to ...