Rape, terror and death at sea: How a boat carrying Rohingya children, women and men capsized


MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP): Huddled on board the boat, the 12-year-old girl quaked with fear.

The captain and crew who she says had tortured her and three other women and girls were not finished. And the punishment for disobedience, the men warned, would be death.

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