Rohingya women at refugee camps face odyssey of misery


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. - AFP

KUTUPALONG Bangladesh (AFP): 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 violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.

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