Rohingya: Our lives are worse than animals

Drifting in limbo: Rohingya migrants in a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea. — AFP

SITTWE (Myanmar): Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya Muslims, where disease and deprivation are rife and armed guards patrol a barbed-wire perimeter.

But after a crackdown on the international smuggling routes that once offered a dangerous – but viable – escape route, she now sees no way out.