

As evening fell, We drove past the tourist areas of Cox’s Bazar. We decided to find out where these brothels were. Those men raised her suspicion, as she has seen Rohingya girls being trafficked from the camps into the main city center. She usually sees Rohingya men as clients, but on occasion Bangladeshi men appear. I feel bad doing it but I have to survive somehow.” She sees two men per day for 20 minutes who give her $2-6. “The food handout is not enough, when my kids cry for rice where will I get it from? I’m only doing this to support my family. Sumaiya told me she got into sex work out of desperation after her abusive husband left her. I met with a girl whose name I can not mention for security reasons I’ll call her Sumaiya to protect her identity. The huts made of bamboo and plastic sheets had four sex workers inside per day, serving both Bangladeshi and Rohingya men. One of the brothels we visited was run by a Rohingya woman who married a Bangladeshi man. “The food handout is not enough, when my kids cry for rice where will I get it from?”


This is an uncommon sight among the Rohingya: most refugees come from insular, conservative Muslim families. I saw first-hand women sitting outside of their huts smoking cigarettes, and female pimps draped in gold. Inside of Kutupalong camp, a camp leader led me into some of the biggest brothels that use many vulnerable women scattered throughout the camps. It’s visible inside of the Rohingya camps at night when there is less security and fewer aid groups present. Since late last year over 700,000 refugees - mostly women and children - have fled a brutal crackdown in their home of Rakhine State by Myanmar government forces.īut despite the assistance and support of aid groups, a black market underbelly thrives, where prostitution of Rohingya girls has become a common. International Aid groups have been pouring into the neighboring refugee camps to help with the Rohingya refugee crisis.

It’s late at night in Cox’s Bazar, and the normal slow pace of business in this beach town has picked up recently. It is disturbing and not suitable for children. The party said that last time they has prevented the bill from being passed by “lobbying hard to bring together NDA allies as well opposition parties” to vote against the Citizenship Amendment Bill."This time, more than blaming JD(U), Shiv Sena, BJD or other parties, we are offended by the pro-CAB stand of our chief minister Sonowal and his party leaders who are against the people of Assam,” AASU General Secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi told The Times of India.Warning: This article contains graphic content. However, the All Assam Student’s Union (AASU) accused the chief minister of working against the interests of the state. Nalbari, an RSS stronghold, has about 1000 Bengali Hindu migrants.Īfter the bill was passed in Lok Sabha, Sarma had tweeted, “This bill will go down in history as a glorious historical correction of a blunder committed by Nehru-Liyaquat Pact! Posterity will owe it to PM Sri Narendra Modi for this giant step.” There are about 2000 Bengali Hindu migrants in Charaideo, 1500 in Dima Hasao, 1000 in Hamren, and 300 in Majauli district.
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