FRANCH 24
Kutupalong (Bangladesh) (AFP)
Issued on: 15/12/2020
Rohingya refugee Julekha Begum is stuck in a camp in Bangladesh; her husband, who she married via video call, lives in Malaysia Munir UZ ZAMAN 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.