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Published December 17th, 2020Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met.
This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.
As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometers away in Malaysia.
Virtual weddings and international betrothals can seem an ideal solution.
Arranged marriages are part of Rohingya custom, but in the Bangladeshi refugee camps, families have little income and struggle to afford the traditional dowries required.
Charities warn that families in camps can be easily tricked, mistaking human traffickers and pimps for matchmakers offering brighter futures.
The community is "very closed" and, while little formal data exists, she added that domestic abuse is "most definitely" a concern because the women have few rights and little access to outside help.
This photo taken on October 22, 2020 shows Rohingya refugee Amerah, 18, who said she has not seen her fiance -- who is a construction worker in Malaysia -- since she was six, at a temporary shelter in Lhokseumawe in Aceh province. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP
In this photograph taken on October 8, 2020, the daughter of Rohingya refugee Arofa Khatun, who tried to migrate with her two daughters to Malaysia to her husband, speaks on the phone with her father at a makeshift shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
In this photograph taken on October 13, 2020, Rohingya refugee Umme Khair, who gave money to a community leader to travel to Malaysia to her husband, interacts with her spouse via video call at a makeshift shelter in Kutupalong Rohingya refugee in Ukhia. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
In this photograph taken on October 13, 2020, Rohingya refugee Umme Khair, who gave money to a community leader to travel to Malaysia to her husband, sits at a makeshift shelter in Kutupalong Rohingya refugee in Ukhia. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already
scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
In this photograph taken on August 24, 2020, Rohingya refugee Somuda Begum pauses during an interview with AFP at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
In this photograph taken on October 13, 2020, Rohingya refugee Umme Khair, who gave money to a community leader to travel to Malaysia to her husband, speaks on her mobile phone at a makeshift shelter in Kutupalong Rohingya refugee in Ukhia. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
This photo taken on October 21, 2020 shows Rohingya refugee Janu, 18, whose family had arranged to marry a Rohingya man working as a labourer in Malaysia, at a temporary shelter in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia's Aceh province. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP
This photo taken on October 21, 2020 shows Rohingya refugee Amerah, 18, who said she has not seen her fiance -- who is a construction worker in Malaysia -- since she was six, at a temporary shelter in Lhokseumawe in Aceh province. Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP
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