Rohingya Forced to Fight Alongside Myanmar Army Tormentors

The Irrawaddy
by AFP
May 29, 2024

Rohingya refugees walk down a path at a camp in Ukhia in Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district in May 2024. / AFP

 

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh—Rohingya mother Sofura Begum has spent years in a squalid refugee camp after fleeing Myanmar. Now her teenage son has been taken to fight alongside the troops that put her there.